The final conference of the e-FishMed project initiated by the European Commission and financed under the European Maritime Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF), was held in Brussels on 22 January 2025.
The e-FishMed project has aimed to set up a virtual regional academy to support the fight against IUU fishing and the control of conservation and management measures in the Mediterranean Sea, especially those adopted by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) and the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia are beneficiaries of the project, and the initiative is supported by France, Italy, Malta, Portugal and Spain.
The final conference organised by the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) was the occasion to review the progress made within the project during the three years of implementation (2022-2025), to discuss the main results achieved and the possible way forward. During the three years of implementation e-FishMed delivered: