Reporting Lines
The Fishery Resources Specialist reports to the GFCM Fishery Officers and to the GFCM Executive Secretary. She/he closely collaborates with relevant staff at the GFCM Secretariat and in the Fisheries and Aquaculture Division.
Technical Focus
Areas of work cover sustainable development and management of fisheries in the Mediterranean and Black Sea region, including sustainable aquaculture development, aquaculture capacity development activities within the ADC, policy support, implementation of relevant plans of action and binding decisions in place, small-scale fisheries guidelines implementation, Blue Transformation, fisheries-related SDG monitoring, information management, fisheries data interoperability standards, data analysis and assessment of the status of marine living resources, management strategy evaluation, ecosystem approach to fisheries management planning and implementation, interactions between fisheries and the marine environment and ecosystems, discards monitoring programmes and awareness, scientific surveys, fishing gear and fishing techniques,
gear selectivity, fisheries decarbonization, mitigation of bycatch, benthic communities, European eel, sturgeons, piked dogfish, vulnerable species, deep water corals, jellyfish, climate change mitigation and adaptation, non-indigenous species (including blue crabs), MCS, IUU fishing, compliance assessment, fishing vessels, socio-economic impacts, value chains, social protection, recreational fisheries, stakeholder engagement, gender and work plan of scientific advisory bodies.
Tasks and responsibilities
• Provide technical inputs towards the implementation of the GFCM Strategy towards the sustainability of Mediterranean and Black Sea fisheries and achievement of their targets and the provision of advice on fisheries and aquaculture;
• Provide technical expertise or advice to monitor, analyze and/or address ecological, biological, economic, market, governance or social issues towards the manag
📌 Fishery Resources Specialist (Roma)
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