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Senegal has taken significant steps to strengthen its fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing through the implementation of the FAO Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA). From 17 to 19 November 2025, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the...

FAO experts and the Philippines’ Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) carried out a joint legal and monitoring, control and surveillance (MCS) review mission to support the country in enhancing its legal, institutional and operational capacities to be in...

Another 13 legal professionals are now in a better position to assist their respective countries in developing and implementing national plans and processes for the effective detection, investigation and the prosecution of fisheries offences and violations, after having completed a...

38 inspectors from 13 countries in Africa followed a three-week FAO international course on Fisheries Port Inspections in support of the Agreement on Port State Measures, held in Europe’s biggest fishing port – Vigo, Spain – between the 13 – 30...

37 fisheries government officials from 15 countries in Asia and the Pacific completed the first two-week FAO international course on Fisheries Law Enforcement, launched under FAO’s Global Capacity Development Programme to support the implementation of the FAO Agreement on Port...