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: End-users input. Data requirements and data transmission issues
- ToR 2: COM input on priorities and relevant initiatives
- ToR 3: Regional database
- ToR 4: Cooperation with regional grants
- ToR 5: Regional Work Plan for the Mediterranean and Black Sea
- ToR 6: Métier issues
- ToR 7: Scientific surveys
- ToR 8: Regional data requirements
- ToR 9: Diadromous species
Mediterranean and Black Sea Regional Work Plan
(2025-2027)
Text
Tables
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 Paraskevi Karachle and Manos Koutraki
- Regional
Scientific network for sampling optimization
Endangered, Threatened and Protected (ETP) bycatch monitoring
- Chaired by Ivana Vukov
- Regional
Métier and Transversal Variables
Data quality to follow up Qualitrain project
Diadromous Fishes.
- Topic: Diadromous Fishes
- Related to ToR 4
- Panregional
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 |
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