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The Parties reviewed the results of the 2024 questionnaires for the review and assessment of the effectiveness of the Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA). Parties reported on a wide range of activities to implement the PSMA and highlighted implementation...

This document contains the report of the fifth meeting of the Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) Open-Ended Technical Working Group on Information Exchange (TWG-IE), which was held in Paris, France, from 10 to 14 March 2025. The TWG-IE welcomed...

In the wake of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which introduced the novel notion of the exclusive economic zone but at the same treated the remaining fisheries on the high seas parsimoniously,...

FAO Members – Tonga, the Russian Federation, and Libya – explain why the FAO Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) is key to help fight illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. Watch the video on YouTube, here.

FAO Member, Solomon Islands, explains why the FAO Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) is key to help fight illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. Watch the YouTube video, here.