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The FAO Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA) is marking a key milestone: in just 18 months since the launch of its Global Information Exchange System (GIES) in December 2023, over 3 000 inspection and denial reports have been exchanged on...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is organizing a workshop to assist the Senegalese authorities in assessing their performance as a flag State. The workshop, taking place between 30 June and 4 July 2025, is part...

Experts from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) carried out a four-day mission in Panama to assist national authorities in identifying monitoring, control and surveillance (MCS) instruments necessary to ensure the legal origin of fisheries products...

At the first Treaty Ceremony held at the FAO Conference in Rome today, 4 new accessions to FAO’s international treaties on fisheries were deposited with the Director-General of FAO. Jamaica and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines became Parties to the 1993...

Tuvalu is the latest FAO Member to become a Party to the Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA). The Agreement entered into force for Tuvalu on 29 June 2025, 30 days after the deposit of its instrument of accession with the Director-General...