Fishery Resources Specialist

Closure Date: 05/Jul/2025, 11:59:00 PM
Organizational Unit: NFIGD - General Fisheries Commisiion for the Mediterranean (GFCM)
Job Type: Non-staff opportunities
Type of Requisition: Consultant / PSA (Personal Services Agreement)
Grade Level: N/A
Primary Location: Home-Based
Duration:Up to 11 months (renewable)

Areas of work cover sustainable development and management of fisheries in the Mediterranean and Black Sea region, including policy support, implementation of relevant plans of action and binding decisions in place, small-scale fisheries guidelines implementation, Blue Transformation, fisheries-related SDG monitoring , data analysis and assessment of the status of marine living resources, management strategy evaluation, ecosystem approach to fisheries management planning and implementation, interactions between fisheries and the marine environment and ecosystems, discards monitoring programmes and awareness, scientific surveys, fishing gear and fishing techniques, gear selectivity, fisheries decarbonization, mitigation of bycatch, benthic communities, European eel, sturgeons, piked dogfish, vulnerable species, deep water corals, jellyfish, climate change mitigation and adaptation, non-indigenous species (including blue crabs), MCS, IUU fishing, compliance assessment, fishing vessels, socio-economic impacts, value chains, social protection, recreational fisheries, stakeholder engagement, gender and work plan of scientific advisory bodies.