The Palau capital plays host this week to the first subregional meeting in the pacific on the FAO Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing.  The workshop has been jointly organized by the Ministry of Natural Resources, Environment & Tourism and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

The world’s first treaty designed to combat illegal fishing went into effect almost one year ago – on 5 June 2016. It now has 48 parties to the Agreement – with Palau, Tonga and Vanuatu comprising the three Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) that have become parties to the Agreement which is designed to help fight illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.