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More fishing vessels are now eligibile to have the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Ship Identification Number - a prerequisite to the first phase of the Global Record - as the IMO Assembly agreed, in December 2017, to a second amendment...

The Port State Measures Support Project (GCP/INT/307/NOR) is operationally active from earlier this month.  The project, funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, intends to improve developing countries and Small Island Development States' capability for the cohesive implementation of provision and...

The second Regional Working Group on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, held in Barbados between the 19 – 21 September, brought together members of the Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission (WECAFC), the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) and the...

Experts from thirty-one FAO member States, RFMOs and NGOs participated in the third Global Record Working Group, held in Rome in June 2017. Among other matters, the Working Group advised on facilitating data upload by the States, possibly through RFMOs’ regional...

Further ideas of collaboration between the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) were discussed during the fourth session of the Sub-Committee on Implementation of IMO Instruments (III), held in London, the United...