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The second FAO international course on the coordinated implementation of the three treaties was delivered in Cape Town, South Africa, bringing together government officers and senior officials working across fisheries, port administration, and maritime safety. Held from 5 to 10 October...

The ninth FAO international course on Fisheries Port Inspections in support of the Agreement on Port State Measures is underway in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, bringing together fisheries officials from Latin America for three weeks of intensive training on the practical application...

Parties to the FAO Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) have agreed on a set of recommendations which will be presented at the Sixth Meeting of the Parties (MOP6), addressing the monitoring of the implementation of the Agreement and its...

Twenty fisheries officers from the Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) Division of Ghana’s Fisheries Commission participated in training provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on the implementation of the MCS Operations Manual.  The training, held from...

The recently released support function, Analytics, to the PSMA Global Information Exchange System (GIES) has been expanded to cover information on the levels of inspection, levels of (apparent) infringement detected, and other key information to better understand and manage PSMA operations. The...