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The Global Record Coordinator participated in the national PSMA workshop, held in South Africa, 27 February – 3 March 2017, which took place to formulate a national strategy and action plan for compliance with the 2009 FAO Agreement on Port...

During the thirty-second Committee on Fisheries (COFI) meeting in Rome, 11–15 July 2016, the Committee voiced strong support for the Global Record of Fishing Vessels, Refrigerated Transport Vessels and Supply Vessels (Global Record) and its continued development by FAO. It recognized...

Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing, also known as IUU, robs the world’s oceans of 26 million tonnes of seafood annually, bringing financial losses to a staggering US$ 23 billion a year. Illegal fishing severely affects the livelihoods of fishers and...

Illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing is about to become much more difficult thanks to the imminent entry into force of the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA), a ground-breaking international accord championed by FAO. Now that the required threshold has been...

Experts from Member States of and observers to the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI), who attended the second Meeting of the Global Record Informal Open-Ended Technical and Advisory Working Group (GRWG) in Rome, 21–23 March 2016, agreed on several points...