it establishes management measures and harvest control rules for fisheries targeting sardine sardina pilchardus and european anchovy engraulis encrasicolus in the northern adriatic sea gsa and transitional conservation measures for small pelagic fisheries in the southern adriatic sea gsa further precautionary and emergency measures were established for and since then additional recommendations have been adopted establishing supplementary precautionary and emergency measures for this fishery in both gsas and for and for the general objective is to ensure that the exploitation levels of small pelagics in the adriatic sea are at msy by it started from a qualitative appraisal of alternative management measures that was later developed into a full quantitative framework