Over the past year, the GFCM-Lex project has taken great strides towards setting up a region-wide legal framework for the conservation of Mediterranean living marine resources and ecosystems. As fisheries laws vary greatly among the region’s 21 countries, this project...

  Co-organized by the GFCM and the Regional Coordination Group for the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, in the context of the Medbycatch Project and the EU Data Collection Framework. Background: The incidental catch of vulnerable species in fisheries (or bycatch) represents...