Keywords: demersal fisheries - development projects - fishery management - fishery resources - international cooperation - marine fisheries - pelagic fisheries - regional planning - research programmes - shared stocks

Abstract

The Twelfth Meeting of the Coordination Committee of the FAO AdriaMed Regional Project “Scientific Cooperation to Support Responsible Fisheries in the Adriatic Sea” was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1st and 2nd March 2011. It was attended by representatives of the Project’s participating countries (Albania, Croatia, Italy, Montenegro, and Slovenia) and other interested parties. The meeting sought to present and discuss the results of the activities carried out by the Project referring to the 2010. The activities followed the methodological approach used by the Project and were presented according to the main components. Attention was drawn on the working paper “Project Future Implementation”, in which objectives, outputs and activities of the proposed extension phase of AdriaMed for 2011 were introduced and illustrated.