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Matthew Camilleri, Technical Secretary of the FAO Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA), explains how the PSMA helps combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, and its positive impact on fisheries sustainability. Watch the video on YouTube, here.

The FAO Voluntary Guidelines for Transshipment (2022) set minimum international standards to regulate, monitor and control transshipment of fish. Such standards are essential to prevent the products of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing from entering the supply chain. This...

The fourth meeting of the Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) Technical Working Group on Information Exchange (TWG-IE) was held in Panama City, Panama, from 18 to 22 March 2024. The TWG-IE commended the Secretariat following the launch of the first...

This brochure was prepared for the FAO international course on fisheries law, which has been designed to strengthen the capacity of legal practitioners in fisheries to perform their tasks. This course forms part of the FAO Fisheries Global Training Programme...

Brochure prepared for the FAO international course on fisheries port inspections in support of the Agreement on Port State Measures, which has been designed to strengthen the capacity of fisheries inspectors to perform their tasks. This course forms part of...