Press Release: Commission: General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean builds on last year’s progress towards sustainability in the region

The European Commission has welcomed the measures adopted by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) to promote sustainable fisheries and aquaculture in the region at its annual general meeting in Rome, January 2007. The Commission, on behalf of the Union, led the process that will offer greater protection to fisheries resources, improve the application of existing measures, enhance the development of reproductive aquaculture, continue to support the regional projects and develop new initiatives to increase cooperation in fisheries management in the Black Sea. This will be made possible thanks to the decisions that will now secure the administrative and budgetary basis of the GFCM making it fully operational.