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A team of fisheries specialists from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) trained 15 Kenya Fisheries Service officers in fisheries risk assessment. The training took place in the coastal location of Malindi, between 13 – 17 February,...

Senior officials and technical experts from Parties to the FAO Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA), along with those from non-Parties and  intergovernmental organizations, of the Southwest Pacific region,  met in New Zealand, in the first of a series of...

A stakeholder consultation was recently carried out in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines that will bring the country closer to enacting a new Fisheries law, substantial work on which was carried out by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the...

The Joint Working Group on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and related matters, in its fifth meeting held in January in Geneva, Switzerland, put forward 52 recommendations to the three United Nations (UN) organizations that form it and to...

Global exchange of information on compliance with national, regional, and international fisheries laws and regulations governing sustainable fishing is now possible with the launch of the Global Information Exchange System (GIES) by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United...