Expected outputs
- Strengthened capacity to manage commercial fisheries, with particular focus on small-scale fisheries
- Enhanced integration of emerging monitoring, control and surveillance technologies in the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
- Integrated ecosystem-based management tools and ecosystem approach to biodiversity protection and sustainable fisheries
- Knowledge management and outscaling
| Total contribution | USD 5 000 000 |
| Duration | 2023–2026 |
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| Implemented by | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN |
| Executed by | General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean |
| Beneficiaries | Georgia, Türkiye, and Ukraine. |
News
The FishEBM approach: bridging conservation and coastal livelihoods
A holistic approach to the sustainable management of fisheries in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
Enhanced regional cooperation for a common vision: sustainable fisheries and aquaculture in the Black Sea
Climate varies significantly across the Black Sea, and environmental changes can be sudden, driving fish to undertake long-range, transboundary migrations for feeding, spawning, and overwintering.
Towards healthy ecosystems: the GFCM’s multifaceted approach to mitigating interactions between fisheries and vulnerable species
The Mediterranean and Black Sea region, despite its susceptibility to climate change and other impacts, remains one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots due to high species richness, endemism, and the occurrence of rare and vulnerable species, including marine mammals, sea turtles, seabirds, and several species of sharks and rays.
Safeguarding the seas: Türkiye enhancing fishing monitoring for sustainable fisheries
Türkiye, an active beneficiary country of the GEF-funded projects FishEBM MED and FishEBM BS, has a longstanding history of promoting sustainable fisheries management in its waters, including through efforts to ensure compliance with fisheries management measures in place.
GEF Council endorses two FAO/GFCM projects supporting sustainability in Mediterranean and Black Sea fisheries
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has endorsed two projects of more than USD 12 million to reverse the overexploitation of select commercial fisheries in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.