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The FAO Capacity Development Programme course on Fisheries Port Inspections in Support of China’s Implementation of the Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) has concluded today. For two intensive weeks, from 22 June to 3 July 2026, at the Shanghai Ocean...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) highlighted the importance of international cooperation, information sharing and capacity development in combatting illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing during the Our Ocean Conference, held in Kenya last month. Representing FAO...

FAO supported a series of meetings with various Vietnamese national agencies to assist the country in developing a National Strategy and Action Plan for the effective implementation of the 2009 FAO Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA), related international instruments...

FAO successfully coordinated an interagency cooperation workshop in the Philippines to advance the implementation of the 2009 FAO Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA), with a focus on fishing vessel inspections. Held from 13 to 20 June 2026, the mission was...

The Republic of Korea’s Minister for Oceans and Fisheries, Jong-woo Hwang, ambassadors of Canada, Chile, the European Union and Norway, together with Germany’s Deputy Head of Mission and the Republic of Korea’s Director General for Fisheries Policy, joined PSMA Parties...