Director-General hails landmark treaty as beginning of end for rogue fishing
Wednesday, 2017/06/07 | 07:46:17
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Capacity-building resources needed to ensure Port State Measures Agreement is a boon for sustainable fisheries
Figure: The Antillas Reefer was caught fishing illegally off the coast of Mozambique. It has been converted into a patrol vessel.
FAO 1 June 2017, Oslo -The Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing, an international treaty aimed at stopping rogue fishing practices, gives the world "all the instruments necessary to achieve our goal," FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said here.
The PSMA will soon have 48 parties - counting all 28 members of the European Union as one - with Japan and Montenegro about to join after having deposited their instruments of adhesion. This gives the one-year-old treaty added heft, Graziano da Silva said Wednesday, adding that he was very confident more countries will join in the near future.
He spoke at the first Meeting of the Parties, hosted by the Government of Norway to hammer out details regarding the implementation of the PSMA.
The FAO-brokered treaty restricts port access to fishing vessels that fail to comply with a set of rules, including proof that they have proper operating licenses and transparent disclosure of the species and quantity of fish caught. The PSMA represents the capstone of years of diplomatic effort to combat the scourge of IIU fishing, which amounts to up to 26 million tonnes, worth some $23 billion a year, and represents a huge threat to all efforts to bolster sustainable fishing in the world's oceans.
Parties to the PSMA currently account for more than two-thirds of the global fish trade.
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