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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...

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...

Members of the Thirty-seventh Session of the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI37) highlighted the contribution of the FAO Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) to the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, as they reiterated that combatting IUU...

FAO hosted a celebration marking the 10th anniversary of the entry into force of the Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA), the first binding international agreement to specifically target illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. The treaty, that now has 86...