General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean - GFCM

News 2022

The GFCM teams up with the Institut Paul Bocuse Research Center and with Mediterranean and Black Sea producers to create a guide highlighting the journey of aquaculture species in the region from farm to fork.  Farmed aquatic foods are a cultural...
Over 900 non-indigenous species – be that fish, molluscs such as mussels, or crustaceans such as prawns – have been spotted in the Mediterranean Sea, and almost 300 in the Black Sea. Rapa whelk is one of them. But what is...
Study by GFCM analyses aquaculture production and trade in the six countries bordering the Black Sea The Black Sea region has seen over recent years a boom in aquaculture and in the trade of seafood, but conflict may hamper this growth...
ES  Q&A with Georgios Paximadis, Aquaculture Expert at the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on how enhancing sea urchin roe can boost food security and livelihoods whilst preserving...
The overall purpose of the activities is to contribute to the execution of scientific demersal trawl survey at sea, in order: to contribute to the characterization of demersal fisheries resources in Albanian and Montenegrin waters in terms of population distribution, abundance as well as...
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