Mediterranean and Black Sea
Scope
Participants
COUNTRIES
Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Romania, Slovenia, Spain.
GFCM
General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean
THIRD COUNTRIES
Terms of Reference (ToR)
- ToR 1: Coordination of data collection activities with other Member States in the Med&BS marine region, and with other RCGs and the Commission where issues affect several marine regions.
- ToR 2: Develop and implement procedures, methods, quality assurance and quality control for collecting and processing data with a view to enabling the reliability of scientific advice to be further improved.
- ToR 3: Develop and implement a regional database for the Med&BS.
- ToR 4: Prepare regional work plans.
- ToR 5: Develop procedures, methods, quality assurance and quality control for collecting and processing data, regionally coordinated sampling strategies and conditions for delivery of data in the regional database.
- ToR 6: Agree on cost-sharing arrangements for participation in research surveys at sea when necessary.
- ToR 7: Provide the Commission with any regional specificities and regional agreements concluded in regards to delegated and implementing acts refered to in Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1004.
Regional Work Plan
Mediterranean and Black Sea
Regional Work Plan on data collection in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors
2025-2027
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Annex 1
Annex 2
Intersessional subgroups (ISSGs)
Coordination with End-users of scientific data on data requirements and data transmission issues.
- Regional
International group organised to coordinate the activity done by different countries to implement the MEDITS surveys (international bottom trawl surveys in the Mediterranean).
- Regional
International group organised to coordinate the activity done by different countries to implement the MEDIAS (MEDiteranean International Acoustic Survey) surveys.
- Regional
Coordination on data collection activities for recreational fishery in the Mediterranean and Black Sea, chaired by Fabio Grati.
- Regional
Chaired by Paolo Sartor and Cristina Follesa
- Regional
Chaired by Alessandro Ligas
- Regional
Chaired by Paraskevi Karachle and Manos Koutraki
- Regional
Chaired by Ivana Vukov
- Regional
Coming soon
| VMSbase | VMSbase is an R suite for the analysis of vessel monitoring system (VMS) and logbook data, which constitute two of the primary sources of information for spatially explicit models of the fishing effort. |
| BEMTOOL | Integrated bioeconomic modelling tool to develop and support multi-objective approaches for the management of the multi-stock and multiple gears fisheries. BEMTOOL application is used to define case studies and assess the effects and consequences of different scenarios from the biological, fishing pressure, economic and social point of view. (Bemtool v.2.5) |
| RoME | RoME allows to perform multiple checks on MEDITS survey data. The last updated release is 1.4. |
| RoMEBS | RoMEBS allows to perform multiple checks on MEDITS-like survey data. The last updated release is 1.1. |
| BioIndex | R code to perform analysis of trawl survey data using MEDITS file format. (BioIndex 3.1) |
| MEDITS | MEDITS is an R package containing a set of functions working with survey data in the format of the MEDITS project. In this version, functions use TA, TB and TC tables respectively containing haul, catch and aggregated biological data. The package is available for download at the R CRAN repository. |
| STREAM tools | R scripts and routines developed under the STREAM project “STrengthening REgional cooperation in the Area of fisheries biological data collection in the Mediterranean and Black Sea”, granted under the EU Call for Proposals MARE-2016-22 and coordinated by Alessandro Ligas (ligas@cibm.it) |
| FAO GFCM | General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean |
| MEDAC | The Mediterranean Advisory Council |
| JRC ISPRA | The Joint Research Centre in Ispra is the third biggest European Commission site after Brussels and Luxembourg. |
| STECF | Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries |
| ICES | International Council for the Exploration of the Sea |
| FAO regional projects | AdriaMed – Scientific Cooperation to Support Responsible Fisheries in the Adriatic Sea |
| CopeMed II – Advice, Technical Support and Establishment of Cooperation Networks to Facilitate Coordination to Support Fisheries Management in the Western and Central Mediterranean | |
| MedSudMed – Assessment and Monitoring of the Fishery Resources and the Ecosystems in the Straits of Sicily | |
| EastMed – Scientific and Institutional Cooperation to Support Responsible Fisheries in the Eastern Mediterranean | |
| National DCF web pages | Bulgaria |
| Croatia | |
| Cyprus | |
| France | |
| Greece | |
| Italy | |
| Malta | |
| Romania | |
| Slovenia | |
| Spain | |
| Survey web pages | MEDIAS |
| MEDITS | |
| SOLEMON |
Latest Reports
Rules of Procedure
Rules of Procedure for the Mediterranean and Black Sea Regional Coordination Group.
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