General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean

This document is the final version of the report adopted in Split during the thirty-seventh session of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) on 17 May 2013. Among the measures adopted this year by the Commission, a recommendation on a multiannual management plan and on transitional conservation measures for fisheries of small pelagic stocks in the Adriatic Sea has set actions aimed at minimizing the threat of overfishing and stock decline and encouraging the sustainable exploitation of these important target species while maintaining stable yields