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A brochure, available in English, French and Spanish, to serve as an information tool to the media and the general public about the programme.  The Global Record is poised to add a critical new element to efforts to support the sustainability...

Report of the 32nd Session of the Committee on Fisheries, (Rome, 11-15 July 2016). Access the document here.

At its thirty-ninth session in 2015, the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean of the FAO (GFCM) proposed that an initiative be launched to declare an International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing. Following extensive consultations,...

This leaflet provides a background to the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA), the benefits, FAO capacity building efforts and the process to become party to the PSMA. Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing is a major problem in capture fisheries...

This document contains the report of the FAO workshop on Implementing the 2009 FAO Agreement on port State measures to prevent deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (“the Agreement”) which was held at the Taj Samudra Hotel in...