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ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF THE FISHERY RESOURCES AND THE ECOSYSTEMS IN THE STRAITS OF SICILY

MedSudMed "Assessment and Monitoring of the Fishery Resources and the Ecosystems in the Straits of Sicily" is a regional project with four participating countries (Italy, Libya, Malta and Tunisia), executed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and funded by the Italian Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policies (MiPAAF). The Project aims to support scientific communities and countries in the development of a monitoring system for the studies of fisheries resources and ecosystems. The main objectives of the Project are to increase the scientific knowledge on the ecosystems of the project area, strengthen national and regional expertise, develop scientific cooperation in order to promote the standardization of the methodologies used in fisheries research. .. ... +MORE

15-16 February 2012. Salammbô, (Tunisia).
Ad hoc meeting on closed seasons for fisheries.

Provisional annoted agenda (pdf)
An ad hoc meeting on closed seasons for fisheries will be held in Salammbô, Tunisia on 15th and 16th February 2012. The meeting will be kindly hosted by the INSTM (Institut National des Sciences set Technologies de la Mer). The aim of the meeting is to discuss the case study of the Gulf of Gabès with a view to the future harmonization of closed seasons for fisheries in the MedSudMed Project area. The current fishing operations taking place in the national and international waters of the area will be described, especially in terms of seasonality, and management tools affecting the fisheries will be discussed. The output of the meeting will be a road map for future activities addressing this issue. Experts from the MedSudMed area will participate and the Meeting is open to other interested parties from the Mediterranean scientific community.

>>> ARCHIVE OF EVENTS

	10-11 January 2012. Mazara del Vallo, Capo Granitola, Italy Working Group on Small Pelagic Fishery Resources in the South-Central Mediterranean Sea
	12-16 December 2011. Sliema, Malta Training course on basic stock assessment
	15-16 September 2011. Salammbô, Tunisia Demersal Sub-regional Working Group on Demersal Shared Stocks in the MedSudMed and CopeMed II area

	Access to the search engine publications; you can by 'full text' (the text edited search in the 'TITLE' and in the 'ABSTRACT' of the publications), by author or by issue. For each publication an information sheet will be available.		Shory summary of the guidelins of the FAO-project "Assessment and Monitoring of the Fishery Resources and the Ecosystems in the Straits of Sicily".
Publications		Informative Note

	Operational Units in the MedSudMed area, GSA 12-16, 21 (GFCM STATISTICAL BULLETIN). Download the PDF version - Release 2008 (final) - (Updated on 10th March 2009).		Maps resulting from oceanographic modelling at sub-regional scale were generated for salinity, temperature and currents at different depths, as they provide an overview of the oceanographic characteristics of the area.
GFCM Statistical bulletin		Oceanographic maps

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
ORGANIZATION
OF THE
UNITED NATIONS

ITALIAN MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE
FOOD AND FORESTRY POLICIES

REGIONE SICILIANA

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COUNTRY FIHERY INFORMATION

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"COUNTRY FISHERY INFORMATION"

	ITALY: Institute for coastal marine environment (IAMC-sez Mazara del Vallo)
	LIBYA: Marine Biology Research Centre (MBRC)
	MALTA: Centre for Fisheries Sciences (MCFS)
	TUNISIA: National Institute of Marine Sciences and Technologies (INSTM)

CGFCM and other mediterranean projects

	GFCM		AdriaMed
	ArtFiMed		CopeMed II
	EastMed		MedFisis

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