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Between Monday 28 May and Friday 01 June, national institutions and FAO gathered at a workshop in Swakopmund, on the coast of western Namibia, to jointly review the country’s implementation of the FAO Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) and...

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) has today publicly launched a new Web portal on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. The Web portal will serve as a point of reference for FAO initiatives in the...

Latin America is closing the net on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing as several States start disseminating their data through the Global Record Information System.  El Salvador, Ecuador, Guatemala, Brazil and Chile are the latest countries to disseminate certified data...

Data from the European fishing fleet is now on board the Global Record of Fishing Vessels, Refrigerated Transport Vessels and Supply Vessels.  European Union member States together with other European countries have, in recent days, submitted data in respect of their...

FAO and Government authorities in Ghana and Namibia have signed separate agreements to receive assistance to enhance their capacity to implement the Port State Measures Agreement.  The agreements were signed by Ghana's Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development on 2 March...