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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has recently conducted an in-country interagency workshop and legal review in the Gambia, between 4 – 11 November 2022.  The workshop and review followed an earlier needs assessment workshop, held in...

Global action to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing has intensified as 100 States have now committed to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA).  The PSMA is the first binding international agreement specifically designed to prevent, deter...

The 2009 FAO Agreement on Port State Measures to prevent, deter, and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (PSMA) has reached 100 States that are now officially Party to it. With the deposit of the instrument of accession by Eritrea, following Nigeria, Angola, and Morocco earlier this...

Eritrea has become the 74th Party to the 2009 FAO Agreement on Port State Measures to prevent, deter, and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (PSMA), effectively becoming the 100th State to accede to the Agreement. Since entering into force in...

Up to 26 participants from three different government Ministries in Panama participated in an FAO workshop on catch documentation schemes, held in Ciudad de Panamá between 25 – 28 October 2022. The workshops were held within the framework of the support provided...