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FAO held a participatory national workshop in Senegal to develop a National Strategy and Roadmap for addressing needs in the effective implementation of the 2009 FAO Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA), complementary international instruments and regional mechanism to combat illegal, unreported...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) undertook a 5 days’ mission to Mozambique, between the 14 – 18 November 2022, to assist the country in the implementation of the 2009 FAO Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA)...

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...