Report of the FAO/CECAF Workshop on Port State Measures to Combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing for the West African Subregion. Accra, Ghana, 9–12 June 2009.
This document contains the report of the FAO/CECAF Workshop on Port State Measures to Combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing for the West African Subregion, which was held in Accra, Ghana, from 9 to 12 June 2009.
The objective of the Workshop was to develop national capacity and promote bilateral, subregional and regional coordination so that countries would be better placed to strengthen and harmonize port State measures and, as a result, implement the relevant tools of the 2001 FAO International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing, the 2005 FAO Model Scheme on Port State Measures to Combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and the 2009 Chairperson’s draft Agreement on Port State Measures to Combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing, when it enters into force. At the conclusion of the workshop a brainstorming session was held with the goal of looking ahead to identify aims and targets for bilateral, subregional and regional cooperation and harmonization of port State measures; identify some measures and mechanisms that could be used to implement harmonized port State measures on a bilateral, subregional and regional basis and to identify the scope for implementation of the draft Agreement by countries in the West African subregion.
Funding and support for the workshop were provided by the FAO Regular Programme and by the Governments of Norway and Sweden through the FishCode Programme.