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Rapport de la dixième session du Comité scientifique consultatif de l’aquaculture. Izmir, Turquie, 27-29 mars 2017

Year of publication 2017

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 75 p.

Author FAO;

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 978-92-5-009853-0

Series title FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Report

Series number No. 1206

Synopsis (short abstract) The Scientific Advisory Committee on Aquaculture (CAQ) of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) held its tenth session in Izmir, Turkey, from 27 to 29 March 2017. The session was attended by delegates and representatives from 13 contracting parties and 2 cooperating non-contracting parties, 2 observers from intergovernmental organizations and representatives from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the GFCM Secretariat. The agenda also in cluded the fifteenth session of the Information System for the Promotion of Aquaculture in the Mediterranean (SIPAM), which was organized concomitantly. During the session, the Committee reviewed the work carried out during the 2015–2017 intersession. In particular, the CAQ discussed aspects related to i) its reorganization; ii) the finalization of guidelines on a harmonized environmental monitoring programme (EMP) for marine finfish cage farming; iii) preparatory work on guidelines to streamlin e aquaculture licensing and leasing processes; iv) finfish and shellfish aquaculture industry and market, including a collection of success stories; and v) the status of aquaculture multi-stakeholder platforms in the region. Moreover, the Committee examined the contents of a draft strategy for the sustainable development of Mediterranean and Black Sea, developed by a dedicated Task Force, and agreed to keep working towards its finalization so that it could be submitted to the next session of the Commission, given the key role to be played by this strategy in efficiently addressing current and emerging challenges facing the sustainable development of aquaculture in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. The Committee then formulated advice in order to steer future work on aquaculture market and industry, aquaculture licensing and leasing processes, aquaculture and environment and aquaculture multi-stakeholder platforms and within the framework of the SIPAM. Finally, the Committee agreed u pon its work plan for 2017–2018 and elected its new Bureau.

Statutory body / Meeting title General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM)

Language Bilingual

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