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A newly developed Manual of Standard Operating Procedures for Senegal to implement the FAO Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) and complementary instruments to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, was formally adopted by the country’s authorities who also...

The Republic of Moldova is the latest FAO Member to become a Party to the Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA). The Agreement entered into force for the Republic of Moldova on 20 May 2026, 30 days after the deposit of its...

The three-week 11th FAO international course on fisheries law came to an end on Friday 5 June, having trained 24 participants from 10 different countries. The in-depth course, held in Busan, the Republic of Korea, from 18 May – 5 June,...

On the day marking the 10th anniversary of the coming into force of the Agreement on Port State measures (PSMA), a new support function to the PSMA Global Information Exchange System (GIES) has been released. This new support function, called GIES analytics,...

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) by the electronic port...