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The second Regional Working Group on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, held in Barbados between the 19 – 21 September, brought together members of the Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission (WECAFC), the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) and the...

Experts from thirty-one FAO member States, RFMOs and NGOs participated in the third Global Record Working Group, held in Rome in June 2017. Among other matters, the Working Group advised on facilitating data upload by the States, possibly through RFMOs’ regional...

Further ideas of collaboration between the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) were discussed during the fourth session of the Sub-Committee on Implementation of IMO Instruments (III), held in London, the United...

The Global Record Programme was thoroughly explained in a conference session during the twelfth World Seafood Congress, which was held in Reykjavik, Iceland, between the 11 – 13 September.  The presentation was held by the Global Record Coordinator in which “FAO instruments...

The Global Record programme is considered one of FAO's important tools to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. José Graziano da Silva, Director-General of FAO, indicated that FAO has recently advanced three important tools to fight IUU fishing - the...