World: Countries unite for a sustainable future in fisheries and aquaculture management

Countries unite for a sustainable future: progress in Mediterranean and Black Sea fisheries and aquaculture management. More than 20 countries and the European Union have adopted 34 measures to ensure the conservation and sustainable use of marine living resources, as well as the sustainable development of aquaculture in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. The forty-sixth session of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), which closed yesterday in Split, Croatia, was one of the most productive in the organisation’s history. The GFCM is the regional fisheries management organisation with the authority to make binding recommendations for fisheries and aquaculture development in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. As such, the annual session is a pivotal date in the sector’s calendar, and this year it saw representatives of the member countries of the GFCM joined by experts and observers ...