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Supporting the Global Capacity Development Programme Of FAO’s Port State Measures Agreement in Colombia and Panama - GCP/INT/356/EC








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    Building Global Capacity to Fight Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing through the Port State Measures Agreement - GCP/GLO/447/EC 2025
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    Efforts 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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    Fourth edition of the FAO international course on Fisheries Port Inspections in support of the Agreement on Port State Measures
    Vigo, Spain, 9–26 September 2024
    2024
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    This brochure provides information to prospective participants about the fourth edition of the The FAO International course on PSMA inspection training, delivered in Vigo, Spain, in September 2024. The course enables professionals in the field to achieve the cohesive implementation at national and regional levels of the provisions of the PSMA, which entered into force on 5 June 2016. International experts from FAO and national authorities will deliver lectures within the course.
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    Roadmap for the implementation of the FAO Agreement on Port State Measures (flyer) 2017
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    The FAO Agreement of Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (the PSMA) was approved by the FAO Conference at its Thirty-sixth Session under paragraph 1 of Article XIV of the FAO Constitution. The Agreement, which is binding on the Parties, entered into force on 5 June 2016. As of 17 February 2017, there were 42 Parties to the Agreement, including the European Union. Whilst this represents a major achievement in the global effort to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, the Parties to the PSMA should now work together towards its effective implementation, including by encouraging the non-Parties to adhere to the Agreement. Access the full Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing, Revised Edition.

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