The General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has unveiled MedSea4Fish – an ambitious long-term programme expected to serve as a…
Some groundbreaking FAO projects are seen as becoming a model for co-operation towards sustainable resource use and conservation. Romeo Mikičić has been fishing in the Adriatic Sea for more than…
Women play a central role in the post-harvest sub-sector in Côte d'Ivoire. The Coastal Fisheries Initiative (CFI) works with at least twelve professional artisanal fishing organisations across two pilot sites…
An ambitious commitment adopted by 22 countries plus the European Union aims to secure a sustainable future for fisheries and aquaculture in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Announcing the…
As social issues become a major concern in fisheries, particularly regarding cases of labour rights violations and human rights abuses found at different stages of the fisheries value chain, the…
As the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has published the latest of its biannual reports, the State of the World’s Fisheries and Aquaculture 2020 (SOFIA), the…
Fifteen recommendations and resolutions, proposed by the European Union, were adopted by consensus with the crucial support of the GFCM Secretariat, constituting a key step towards the full implementation of…
At the Our Ocean Conference, FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu has urged reversing a ‘dangerous sustainability divide’ in fisheries management. Serious investments in ocean sustainability will increase the amount of fish…
The EU, the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have signed a €40 million, five-year programme (FISH4ACP) to…
Organised in Rome by one of the Italian fish workers’ unions, UILA pesca, and with the support of Italy’s Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies and Tourism, a conference…