EN | AR | FR | TR Rome - This week, 20 countries and the European Union made significant strides towards enhancing the sustainability of fisheries and aquaculture by adopting 17 pivotal decisions, including 12 binding recommendations, during the forty-seventh session...

EN | TR 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. Integrated and internationally coordinated resource management strategies are therefore essential to ensure the...

Rome - The future of sustainable aquaculture in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea will take centre stage at the Regional Aquaculture Conference on 4 and 5 December in Heraklion, Greece. The conference is organized by the General Fisheries Commission...

ATDEPA and CGPM join forces to raise awareness of social protection among small-scale fishers and promote responsible fishing among future generations The Tunisian Association for the Development of Artisanal Fishing (Association tunisienne pour le développement de la pêche artisanale, ATDEPA),...

Our dearest colleague and friend Claudia Escutia has passed away surrounded by her family, after dealing with a serious illness over the last few months. Claudia had been working at FAO for 23 years and was known across the...

The Forum on Fisheries Science in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea (Fish Forum), organized by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), is the most important scientific gathering dedicated...

Participants receive intensive training and coaching to strengthen their business, entrepreneurial and marketing skills Five small-scale aquaculture producers from the southeastern Mediterranean are participating in an innovative capacity development programme organized by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) of...

Rome, Italy. More than 50 small-scale fishers and small-scale fisheries stakeholders, together with representatives from relevant organizations, gathered in Rome to review progress in the implementation of the Regional Plan of Action for Small-Scale Fisheries in the Mediterranean and the...

EN | FR | TR 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,...