Author: General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). Scientific Advisory Committee. Session

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 180

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The Scientific Advisory Committee of the GFCM, in its twelfth session reviewed the activities and results obtained by its subsidiary bodies along with the proposals of the Coordinating Meeting of the Sub-Committees, as well as the achievements by the FAO regional projects in support of the GFCM activities. It further discussed several important topics including recreational fisheries, improvement of gear selectivity and reduction of bycatch, the impact of climate change, the impact of alien species on fisheries and other issues such as the exploitation of red corals, the status of elasmobranch species and the follow-up on fisheries-restricted areas. Le comite scientifique consultatif de la CGPM a examine les activites et les resultats obtenus par ses organes subsidiaires, la reunion de coordination des Sous-Comites ainsi que les realisations des projets regionaux de la FAO qui soutiennent les activites de la CGPM. Il a en outre discute de plusieurs sujets importants tels que la peche recreative, l'amelioration de la selectivite des engins et reduction des prises accessoires, l'impact du changement climatique, l'impact des especes non indigenes sur les pecheries et d'autres questions telles que l'exploitation du corail rouge, la situation des especes d'elasmobranches et le suivi des zones de peche a acces reglemente."