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Two experts from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) led a new mission to assist Uruguay’s fisheries authorities in developing a national monitoring, control and surveillance plan aimed at the international fleet which seeks access and...

The 2009 FAO Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (PSMA) entered into force on 5 June 2016. With the PSMA being the first international binding agreement focused on illegal, unreported and unregulated...

Statement by Olivier Marc Dion, Chairperson of the FAO Agreement on Port State Measures The 5 of June 2025 is the international day for the fight against against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. Why such a date? Because this day...

Twenty-five fisheries inspectors, from Asia and the Pacific, can now use new skills acquired after following an intensive course organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The FAO International course on fisheries port inspections in support...

A series of online courses by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been launched, to provide an opportunity for users to learn more about the impacts of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and ways...