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The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) met with the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) today to re-launch the Workplan of Assistance to the Philippines in the implementation of the 2009 FAO Agreement on Port...

On Monday 6 December 2021, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the National Fisheries Authority (NFA) of Papua New Guinea agreed on the Workplan of Assistance for the effective implementation of port State measures and relevant international...

Parties to the 2009 FAO Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA)  can now start sharing information through the Global Information Exchange System (GIES), foreseen under the PSMA, which from today is available in its pilot phase. This firm step forward in...

Portuguese-speaking countries agree to establish a network of cooperation in combatting illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing 19 November 2021, Vilankulo, Mozambique – Nine Portuguese-speaking countries have met to discuss the challenges in combatting illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and...

Benin has become the seventieth Party to the Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) to prevent, deter, and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, thirty days after depositing its instrument of accession with the Food and Agriculture Organization of...