The online workshop, organized by FAO Fisheries Division in collaboration with FAO Regional Projects, compared and analyzed selected experiences with the implementation of EAF-like approaches to fisheries management in the Mediterranean Sea. The final objective of the action is to contribute to global efforts by FAO to identify lessons regarding enabling factors and main challenges to strengthen EAF implementation. The workshop discussed 10 case study fisheries from different sub-regions of the Mediterranean, selected for their recognized attempts to change management practices in line with some of the basic principles of EAF, including participatory and adaptive fisheries management. Participants agreed on a roadmap to the preparation of a technical report that will document the case studies and the main lessons emerging form their comparative analysis.        

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The SSF - University DAY was a single day event organized by the FAO Mediterranean Projects AdriaMed, EastMed, CopeMed, MedSudMed and the FAO GFCM BlackSea4Fish Project in collaboration with several national partner organizations. The event was part of the Small Scale Fisheries University launched by the FAO General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (FAO – GFCM) in the framework of the Regional Plan of Action for a Small Scale Fisheries in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. The initiative has been conceived as an event to take place simultaneously throughout the Mediterranean and Black Sea. The Day foresaw national workshops to address common regional SSF issues such as collaborative science and the valorization of fishers knowledge, thus including participatory data collection, local ecological knowledge (LEK), perception on climate change and environmental impacts of fishing. The event was an opportunity to give voice to fishers and to promote a proactive dialogue among them, scientists and national administration. The SSF University DAY was held virtually in 13 different localities at the same time involving 20 institutions and more than 200 connected participants.        

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::SSF University on GFCM Website   ::Close to 200 fishers and scientists participated today in the SSF University day on GFCM Website   ::Tweet 1   ::Tweet 2

AdriaMed organized a technical meeting to review and assess progress made by the Project on biological indicators and reference points. The meeting was kindly hosted by the Laboratory of Marine Biology of Fano (Italy).        

 

             

The second AdriaMed Meeting on Operational Units in the Adriatic Sea was held in Zagreb, Croatia, on 14th and 15th September 2004. This follows the first meeting held in April 2004 in Dürres, Albania. The outcome of the first meeting and the data collection exercise and results, as communicated to the GFCM SAC Sub-committees in Malaga (May 2004) were presented to the Meeting. Furthermore the Meeting took into consideration possible ways to overcome the constraints identified in the application of Operational Units for the needs of fisheries management. The possibility of preparing a document on the practicality of identified Operational Units in a fishery management framework was discussed and appraised.        

 

             

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AdriaMed organised an ad hoc working group on Operational Units in the Adriatic Sea. The meeting was held on the 1st and 2nd of April in Albania and was hosted by the Fisheries Research Institute in Dürres. Among others, the aims of the working group were to update the participants on the state of knowledge concerning OUs and discuss the possibility of implementing pilot studies and preparing the relative work plan.        

 

             

Over the last few years, the issue of excess fishing capacity has received a lot of attention worldwide. It follows from decades of effort to deal with the degradation of fish stocks and the related issue of overexploitation without due consideration being paid to the direct or indirect effect of fleet capacity. Fishing capacity can be defined for a given fleet as the amount of fishing effort that can be produced over a given period of time (e.g. a year) under full time utilization (i.e. assuming normal utilization, unrestricted by catch or effort constraints). Excessive fishing capacity, in the form of excess fleet size leads to economic waste. If catches are not regulated or poorly regulated, it may also lead to the degradation of fishery resources and the dissipation of food production potential. The impact of excessive fishing capacity on the biological and economic condition of many fisheries throughout the world has been a matter of growing concern. Although the use of the term fishing capacity is increasingly widespread, its definition varies among countries and institutions and the related assessment and management aspects are not always familiar. In the Adriatic region, as well as in the whole Mediterranean, the issue of fishing capacity is relatively new. The relevance of the fishing capacity issue is often referred to and highlighted in the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries. References to it may be found in several Articles of the Code such as Article 6 (at section 6.1, 6.3), Article 7, which deals specifically with Fisheries Management. (7.1.8, 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.4.3, 7.6.3, 7.6.5). The International Plan of Action for the Management of Fishing Capacity was developed on this basis and adopted by COFI in 1999. Fishery management is one of the components of the AdriaMed Project and the fishing capacity issue is regarded as a relevant aspect. This topic was discussed during the last meeting of the AdriaMed Coordination Committee (Tirana, Albania, 21-23 November 2001). It is specifically addressed in paragraphs 63, 64 and 65 of the adopted report (AdriaMed Technical Documents TD.7). Consequently, AdriaMed organized a Seminar on Fishing Capacity Definition, Measurement and Assessment. The Seminar was run together with the staff from the Fishery Policy and Planning Division of FAO and it also focused on the characteristics of Mediterranean fisheries. The participants were fishery biologists, economists, managers and representatives of the fishery associations.        

 

             

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