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Building Global Capacity to Fight Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing through the Port State Measures Agreement - GCP/GLO/447/EC

Year of publication 2025

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Synopsis (short abstract) 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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