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An international course by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) started being delivered in Vigo, Spain today. The fourth FAO international course on Fisheries Port Inspections in support of the Agreement on Port State Measures runs over three weeks, until 26 September.

The course forms part of the FAO fisheries training programme in support of the implementation of international instruments, and has been designed to strengthen the capacity of fisheries inspectors to perform their task in conformity with international instruments to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, in particular the FAO Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA). A series of lectures, delivered by FAO officials, international experts and national authorities, will be complemented with several onsite practical activities.

The course is directed towards professionals in the field including port State measures senior fisheries inspectors and aims to address key aspects of the training of inspectors, in order to provide them with the solid and consolidated theoretical knowledge to implement the PSMA effectively.

This is the fourth such course delivered by FAO in Vigo, with the collaboration of the Secretaría General de Pesca, the Xunta de Galicia and the Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo with the technical support of Fundación MarinnLeg. Financial support for this course has been entirely provided by the Republic of Korea.

Sixteen fisheries inspectors from Dominica, Grenada, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago travelled to Europe’s biggest fishing port, considered a fitting context to this course for theoretical and practical sessions.

The FAO international course on Fisheries Port Inspections in support of the Agreement on Port State Measures is one of several training possibilities and other capacity development initiatives carried out by FAO under its global programme, to assist States in implementing the PSMA and complementary international instruments, and combat IUU fishing.

More information is available here.

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