Europêche
- Association of national
organisations of fishing enterprises in the European Union.
European Commission - Fisheries - The Common Fisheries
Policy (CFP) is the European Union's instrument for the management
of fisheries and aquaculture. It was created to manage a common
resource and to meet the obligation set in the original Treaties of
the then European Community. Because fish are a natural and mobile
resource they are considered as common property. In addition, the
Treaties which created the Community stated that there should be a
common policy in this area, that is, common rules adopted at EU
level and implemented in all Member States.
General Fisheries
Commission for the Mediterranean - Consisting of 22 Member
countries along with the European Community, the GFCM’s objectives
are to promote the development, conservation, rational management
and best utilization of living marine resources, as well as the
sustainable development of aquaculture in the Mediterranean, Black
Sea and connecting waters. Membership is open to both Mediterranean
coastal states and regional economic organizations as well as to
United Nations member states whose vessels engage in fishing in
Mediterranean waters.
Fishery and Aquaculture Country Profile for Malta
- aquatic species caught by country or area, by species items, by
FAO major fishing areas, and year, for all commercial, industrial,
recreational and subsistence purposes. The harvest from mariculture,
aquaculture and other kinds of fish farming is also included. Malta
Fisheries Country Profile - The Fisheries Department of the Food and
Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, prepares and
publishes Fishery Country Profiles (FCP) for each country. Each FCP
summarises the Department's assessment of activities and trends in
fisheries and aquaculture for the country concerned. The profiles
have a standard layout. Economic and demographic data are based on
UN or World Bank sources; data on fisheries are generally those
published by the FAO Fisheries Department
Government
of Malta Information and Services Online
Fish and
Farming Regulation and Control - Fish and Farming Regulation
and Control Malta
Malta Aquaculture
Research Centre - The National Aquaculture Centre (NAC) was
set up at Fort San Lucjan in 1988 by the Ministry for Food,
Agriculture and Fisheries. The primary aim was to pioneer the
development of fish farming as a new industrial activity in Malta.
In 1992 a pilot marine hatchery was established for the production
of sea bass and sea bream. After a slump in sea bass and bream
production in the late 90’s, the centre covered research work on
both fisheries and aquaculture and was renamed as the Malta Centre
for Fisheries Sciences in 2001. Research on the amberjack started in
2006, when the hatchery technology was improved and the rearing of
sea bream and amberjacks started. Since then, the hatchery has
developed substantially and research is now carried out on the
amberjack, blue-fin tuna, sea bream and sea bass with other species
such as the grouper and meagre in the pipeline.
Today the Centre has once again become an aquaculture centre, named
the Malta Aquaculture Research Centre (MARC) - the only research
facility on Malta for hatching marine species for mariculture. Many
improvements have been made in the marine hatchery to accommodate
amberjack and bluefin tuna larvae. The main stream of research
focuses on the diversification of species to be produced for
mariculture, with success obtained on a national level with the
Amberjack Project and on an EU level with the SELFDOTT project.
MARC also houses the Turtle Rehabilitation Unit that falls under the
same Ministry.
Some fish species found in Mediterranean:
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Latin name |
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Citharus linguatula |
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Eutrigla gurnardus |
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Helicolenus dactylopterus |
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Lepidorhombus boscii |
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Lophius budegassa |
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Lophius piscatorius |
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Merluccius merluccius |
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Micromesistius potassou |
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Mullus barbatus |
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Mullus surmuletus |
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Pagellus acarne |
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Pagellus bogaraveo |
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Pagellus erythrinus |
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Pagrus pagrus |
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Phycis blenoides |
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Raja clavata |
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Solea vulgaris |
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Spicara flexuosa |
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Trachurus mediterraneus |
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Trachurus trachurus |
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Trisopterus min. capelanus |
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Zeus faber |
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Aristaeomorpha foliacea |
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Aristeus antennatus |
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Nephrops norvegicus |
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Parapenaeus longirostris |
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Eledone cirrhosa |
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Eledone moschata |
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Illex coindetti |
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Loligo vulgaris |
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Octopus vulgaris |
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Sepia oficinalis |
Ocean Health Index Malta - The Ocean Health Index is a valuable tool for the
ongoing assessment of ocean health. By providing a means to advance
comprehensive ocean policy and compare future progress, the Index
can inform decisions about how to use or protect marine ecosystems.
The Index is a collaborative effort, made possible through
contributions from more than 65 scientists/ocean experts and
partnerships between organizations including the National Center for
Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Sea Around Us, Conservation
International, National Geographic, and the New England Aquarium.
Information for Malta
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Malta Maritime
Authority - The objectives of the Authority can be
summarised succinctly:
To market Malta as a world maritime centre;
To facilitate foreign trade;
To render the administration, services and operations or ports and
yachting centres more efficient and cost-effective;
To provide a sound financial basis for the Authority and achieve
target return on investment;
To standardise practices in line with the European Union;
To attract cruise liner traffic;
To market the Malta flag abroad;
To further complement maritime business activity;
National
Statistics office of Malta - The National Statistics Office
came into being in March 1947. However official statistics had been
compiled and published for a long time before . In 1872, an official
publication called The Malta Blue Book featured a statistical view
of Malta and its Dependencies for the past ten years – 1863 to 1872
- covering the relevant time series for population, education,
finance, sale of public sites, imports, exports and shipping. One of
the first volumes of The Blue Book of the Colony of Malta was
published in 1851, and comprised, among other things, a statistical
abstract on population emanating from the 1842 Census.
Blue-fin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus) Population Dynamics research
programme
Research on fisheries biology of blue-fin tuna and swordfish (Xiphias
gladius) in the Mediterranean Sea. Malta is participating by
collecting fishing effort and landings data as well as biological
data together with Spain, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Italy. The
results of the analyses of the pooled national data are used to
issue recommendations (eg. total allowable catches, closed seasons)
on the exploitation of these Mediterranean stocks.
AQUASTAT is FAO's global information
system on water and agriculture developed by the Land and Water Division. It
collects, analyses and disseminates data and information by country and by
region. Its aim is to provide users interested in global, regional and national
analyses with comprehensive information related to water resources and
agricultural water management across the world, with emphasis on countries in
Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Information for Malta
An international bottom trawl survey in the Mediterranean - In the Mediterranean, the
main demersal fisheries are localized on narrow continental shelves
along the coasts. Experiences during the last decades in this area
have shown that it was difficult to obtain a global estimate of the
demersal resources from fishing activity, especially due to the very
large dispersion of the landing places, the important diversity of
the species caught and the scarceness of reliable statistics. This
situation has induced different European Union States to conduct
national programmes for the assessment of these resources from
repetitive trawl surveys. A lot of the demersal resources in the
Mediterranean are considered as fully or over-exploited.
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