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General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) - Country Profiles

Policies

Regional plan of action for small-scale fisheries in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
Date of text: 26 September 2018
Resolution for a mid-term strategy (2017–2020) towards the sustainability of Mediterranean and Black Sea fisheries (Res. GFCM/40/2016/2).
Date of text: 2016

Legislation

Climate change

Resolution GFCM/46/2023/9 on climate-resilient aquaculture.
Date of text: 2023

Environment

Resolution GFCM/43/2019/4 on the ban of single-use plastics in all GFCM meetings.
Date of text: 2019

Fisheries and aquaculture

Recommendation GFCM/46/2023/16 on a long-term management plan for European eel in the Mediterranean Sea, repealing Recommendations GFCM/45/2022/1 and GFCM/42/2018/1.
Date of text: 2023
Recommendation GFCM/44/2021/20 on a multiannual management plan for the sustainable exploitation of small pelagic stocks in the Adriatic Sea (geographical subareas 17 and 18).
Date of text: 2021
Recommendation GFCM/43/2019/4 on a management plan for the sustainable exploitation of red coral in the Mediterranean Sea.
Date of text: 2019
Recommendation GFCM/43/2019/5 on a multiannual management plan for sustainable demersal fisheries in the Adriatic Sea (geographical subareas 17 and 18).
Date of text: 2019
Recommendation GFCM/42/2018/8 on further emergency measures in 2019-2021 for small pelagic stocks in the Adriatic Sea (geographical subareas 17 and 18).
Date of text: 2018

Gender

Resolution GFCM/45/2022/1 on empowering women in the aquaculture sector.
Date of text: 2022

Sea

Resolution GFCM/43/2019/4 on the ban of single-use plastics in all GFCM meetings.
Date of text: 2019

Wild species and ecosystems

Recommendation GFCM/47/2024/11 establishing measures on sturgeons (Acipenseridae) in the Black Sea (geographical subarea 29).
Date of text: 2024
Recommendation GFCM/46/2023/1 on the establishment of a fisheries restricted area in the Gulf of Lion (geographical subarea 7) to protect spawning aggregations and deep-sea sensitive habitats, repealing Recommendation GFCM/44/2021/5.
Date of text: 2023
Recommendation GFCM/46/2023/2 on the definition of a minimum conservation reference size for giant red shrimp and blue and red shrimp in the Strait of Sicily (geographical subareas 12 to 16).
Date of text: 2023
Recommendation GFCM/46/2023/3 on the definition of a minimum conservation reference size for giant red shrimp and blue and red shrimp in the Ionian Sea (geographical subareas 19 to 21).
Date of text: 2023
Recommendation GFCM/46/2023/4 on the definition of a minimum conservation reference size for giant red shrimp and blue and red shrimp in the Levant Sea (geographical subareas 24 to 27).
Date of text: 2023