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ProjectBuilding Global Capacity to Fight Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing through the Port State Measures Agreement - GCP/GLO/447/EC 2025Efforts to manage and conserve global fisheries stocks are undermined by illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, which affects the long-term sustainability of fisheries. For more than four decades, beginning with the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1982, an international framework to manage fisheries sustainably has coalesced, and in more recent years, tools specifically targeting IUU fishing have also been developed and agreed upon. One of these tools is the FAO Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate IUU fishing, or the Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA). This project was designed to support the implementation of the FAO’s PSMA Global Capacity Development Programme and was embedded in Part 6 of the Agreement, which concerns requirements for developing States. It specifically targeted the countries of Cameroon, Comoros, Ecuador and Ghana, assisting these countries to implement the PSMA, as well as other instruments, mechanisms and tools to continue the fight against IUU fishing. In addition, it sought to enhance global information exchange for the effective implementation of the PSMA through the further development and operationalization of the FAO Global Record of Fishing Vessels, Refrigerated Transport Vessels and Supply Vessels (Global Record) and the design and development of the PSMA Global Information Exchange System (GIES).
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Book (stand-alone)Voluntary Guidelines on the Marking of Fishing Gear
A framework for conducting a risk assessment for a system on the marking of fishing gear. Suppl. 1
2023This document is a supplement to the Voluntary Guidelines on the Marking of Fishing Gear (VGMFG; FAO, 2019), and provides a framework for conducting a risk assessment to assist in determining the need for, and requirements of, a system for the marking of fishing gear. The development of this document was based on principles outlined in the Annex of the VGMFG and guided by the results of a pilot project for risk assessment on the marking of fishing gear conducted in Grenada. The marking of fishing gear contributes to sustainable fisheries, improving the state of the marine and freshwater environments by combatting, minimizing, and eliminating abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG); it also facilitates the identification and recovery of such gear. In addition, fishing gear marking supports fisheries management and can be used as a tool in the identification of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing activities. This manual is intended to assist fisheries managers, fishing gear manufacturers and the fisheries sector to meet the relevant international, regional or national obligations for gear marking. More specifically, it enables all stakeholders to comply with the specific gear marking requirements outlined in the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, as well as in other international instruments and agreements. Organizations or parties concerned with, or actively addressing the issue of ALDFG may also find the information in this publication useful. -
Book (stand-alone)Voluntary Guidelines for Transshipment / Directives volontaires relatives au transbordement / Directrices voluntarias para los transbordos 2023
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The Voluntary Guidelines for Transshipment address the regulation, monitoring and control of transshipment of fish, which have not been previously landed, whether processed or not. They are elaborated to complement and support existing and new efforts and policies recognizing that all available means in accordance with international law and other international instruments, should be used to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and fishing related activities in support of IUU fishing. Les Directives volontaires relatives au transbordement traitent de la réglementation, du suivi et du contrôle du transbordement de poisson qui n'a pas encore été débarqué, qu'il ait été transformé ou non. Elles sont élaborées pour compléter et soutenir les efforts et les politiques existants et à venir, en reconnaissant que tous les moyens disponibles, conformément au droit international et à d'autres instruments internationaux, devraient être utilisés pour prévenir, contrecarrer et éliminer la pêche illicite, non déclarée et non réglementée (INDNR) et les activités connexes qui soutiennent la pêche INDNR. Las Directrices voluntarias para los transbordos abordan la reglamentación, el seguimiento y el control de los transbordos de pescado que no haya sido desembarcado previamente, sea elaborado o no. Se establecen para complementar y respaldar las iniciativas y las políticas existentes y nuevas, pues se reconoce que deberían utilizarse todos los medios disponibles de conformidad con el derecho internacional y otros instrumentos internacionales para prevenir, desalentar y eliminar la pesca ilegal, no declarada y no reglamentada (INDNR) y las actividades relacionadas con la pesca en apoyo de la pesca INDNR.
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