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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...

The meeting of the Global Record Specialized Core Working Groups, held in Rome (30 September – 2 October 2015), defined various data fields to be included in the Information System of the Global Record. As per the respective specialized working group,...

21 February 2014, Bergen/Rome – The booming world fish trade is generating more wealth than ever before, but countries must help small-scale fishers and fish farmers benefit too, FAO said today.Global fishery production from wild capture fisheries and aquaculture is...