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
- Innovative blue economy solutions accounting for the fishery sector
- Knowledge management and outscaling
| Total contribution | USD 7 273 973 (USD 5 million GFCM / USD 2.27 million UNEP-MAP) |
| Duration | 2023–2026 |
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| Beneficiaries | Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lebanon, Libya, Montenegro, Morocco, Tunisia and Türkiye. |
News
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