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Parties to the 2009 FAO Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA)  can now start sharing information through the Global Information Exchange System (GIES), foreseen under the PSMA, which from today is available in its pilot phase. This firm step forward in...

Portuguese-speaking countries agree to establish a network of cooperation in combatting illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing 19 November 2021, Vilankulo, Mozambique – Nine Portuguese-speaking countries have met to discuss the challenges in combatting illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and...

Benin has become the seventieth Party to the Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) to prevent, deter, and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, thirty days after depositing its instrument of accession with the Food and Agriculture Organization of...

An FAO Expert Consultation, that brought together the best technical, operational, and legal expertise from all world regions, met earlier this month to review the draft Voluntary Guidelines for Transshipment. This followed a call from the Thirty-fourth Session of the Committee...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is currently assisting Saint Kitts and Nevis to analyse ‘gaps’ in national fisheries legal, institutional, and monitoring, control and surveillance (MCS) frameworks, compared with measures established in international fisheries binding...