The Principality took part, as a member of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, in the work of the 41st session of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) held in Budva, Montenegro, from October 16 to 20.
On World Food Day, October 16, the GFCM reiterated the importance of safeguarding products from the oceans, which contribute to food security and nutrition around the world.
To meet this need, the Commission adopted the First Regional Action Plan to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, as well as a new Strategy for the Sustainable Development of Aquaculture, consistent with the Ministerial Declaration of Malta MedFish4Ever, signed by the Principality on May 31, 2017.
The Government of Monaco, supporting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, has signed a triennial agreement 2017-2019 with GFCM for “Promoting the sustainable development of fisheries through the fight against illegal and unreported and unregulated fishing in the GFCM area of application, in the Mediterranean and in the Black Sea.”