FAO continues to assist Uruguay to implement the PSMA and complementary instruments
Two experts from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) led a new mission to assist Uruguay’s fisheries authorities in developing a national monitoring, control and surveillance plan aimed at the international fleet which seeks access and use of the port of Montevideo.
FAO's assistance also supported the Uruguayan authorities in drafting a national inspection plan, which includes several standard operating procedures for the implementation of the FAO Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) and complementary international instruments to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
The weeklong discussions took place from Monday 26 to Friday 30 May 2025, under the Global Capacity Development Programme to support the implementation of the PSMA and complementary international instruments, specifically through a project funded by the Republic of Korea. Uruguay will now take into consideration within its national structures, both documents prepared with the assistance of FAO, as it seeks to review its legal and policy frameworks to combat IUU fishing.
During this mission, FAO experts also supported the arrangement of the Second meeting of the country’s Coordinating Commission on the Prevention of Illegal Fishing, where representatives of the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Ministry of Transport and Public Works, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of National Defence, also participated.