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Officials from 14 States, among which 13 Parties to the FAO Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) and one non-Party, together with two regional fishery bodies met in Maputo, Mozambique for the third PSMA Regional Coordination Meeting for Africa, to discuss matters...

Advance Requests for Port Entry (ARPEs), a mandatory notification under the FAO Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) for vessels seeking entry into a designated port, are from today being shared automatically into the PSMA Global Information Exchange System (GIES)...

Another 18 legal professionals from 10 States will soon be in a better position to assist their countries in developing and executing national plans and processes for the effective detection, investigation and the prosecution of fisheries offences and violations, after...

The 10th anniversary of the FAO Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) was commemorated during the second in-person educational workshop of the South American Regional Action Group (GAR, Grupo de Acción Regional) on Fisheries, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 13 –...

Fisheries officers and port State control officers responsible for fishing vessel safety and decent work on board fishing vessels have started to benefit from a new course launched by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as part of its Global Capacity Development Programme in...