19-20 April, Bari, Italy.
3rd Coordination Committee Meeting of the EastMed Project. The third coordination meeting of the EastMed project was held in Bari, Italy, from 19 to 20 April 2012 under the kind invitation of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policies of Italy. +MORE

10-12 April, Beirut, Lebanon.
EastMed Seminar on Control, Inspection and Good Hygienic procedures in Fisheries. Two consultants travelled to Beirut Lebanon from the 10th to the 12th of April 2012, in order to conduct a seminar on control, inspection and good hygienic procedures in fisheries. +MORE

26-28 March, Tirana, Albania.
13th Coordination Committee Meeting of the AdriaMed. The Project’s Coordinator participated at the 13th AdriaMed Coordination Committee meeting which was organized and held in Tirana, Albania from 26-28 March 2012 and kindly hosted by the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Water Administration, Directorate of Fisheries Policies. +MORE

23 March-1 April.
EastMed Seminar on Control, Inspection and Good Hygienic procedures in Fisheries, Cairo, Alexandria, Kafr el sheik, Damietta, Port said, Egypt. The course was designed for fisheries biologists working in fisheries centres or other research institutions involved in fisheries monitoring, research and management in the Mediterranean. +MORE

13-14 March, Djerba, Tunisia.
10th Coordination Committee Meeting of the MedSudMed Project. The meeting was attended by representatives of Italy, Libya, Malta, Tunisia, as well as from the FAO, GFCM and other sub-regional projects and three members of the evaluation team. +MORE

12-16 March, Beirut, Lebanon.
Training course and start of the pilot study on socio-economic data collection. During the course, the preliminary version of the paper questionnaire was introduced and described and a detailed description of each variable was provided.. +MORE

06-07 March, Beirut, Lebanon.
GFCM task Force Sub regional Meeting. The Task Force meeting represents the second step of a new process which aims at promoting a bottom up approach and which is ultimately expected to lead to the amendment of the GFCM Agreement and associated rules in order to enable GFCM to respond to the challenges arisen in respect of the current status of fisheries and aquaculture in the Mediterranean and Black sea. +MORE

29 February–01 March, Mersin, Turkey.
EastMed demersal trawl survey in the Mediterranean Sea, preliminary meeting; survey protocol and meeting report. The meeting was attended by seven experts (one from each EastMed member country), plus the representatives of the FAO-EastMed project. +MORE

20-23 February, Sofia, Bulgaria.
GFCM - Scientific Advisory Committee - 14th Session. The Project’s coordinator and the technical officer together with the staff of the project from the other FAO Mediterranean sub-regional projects presented the document GFCM:SAC14/2012/Inf.19 summarizing the major activities of the projects during the intercessional period. +MORE

07-15 February, Alexandria, Egypt.
EastMed 3^rd mission of the fisheries-dependent data collection pilot survey. Two consultants, one socio-economist and one biologist accompanied the staff of the project. +MORE

23-26 January 2012. Rome, Italy.
GFCM Sub-Committee Meetings. The aim of the mission was to participate to the GFCM Sub-Committees meetings, in Rome from 23/01 to 26/01/2012 as well as to have discussions with FAO-FIRF on the 27th. +MORE

12-16 December, Sliema, Malta.
Training Course on Introduction to Fish Stock assessment models. The course was designed for fisheries biologists working in fisheries centres or other research institutions involved in fisheries monitoring, research and management in the Mediterranean. +MORE

24-30 November Solemon Survey, Italy; 10-17 July Medits Survey Cyprus.
Participation at Surveys at Sea, Solemon and Medits demersal Surveys.. The EastMed project supported an Egyptian and a Lebanese scientist to participate in the 2011 Cypriot leg of the Mediterranean International Trawl Survey (MEDITS). +MORE

22 November, Cairo, Egypt.
Workshop on Socio-economic Assessment of Egyptian Fisheries. The methodology of the assessment was described and the results were presented. The assessment particularly gave a wide overview of the social aspects of the fisheries. +MORE

24-29 October, Chania, Greece.
GFCM Working Group on Stock Assessment. There were 30 participants from Albania, Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Montenegro, Morocco, Romania, Spain, Tunisia, representatives of FAO, FAO EastMed Project, and FAO MedSudMed Project, and from the GFCM Secretariat. +MORE