FAO
Consultant Monitoring Control and Surveillance.
Lead: Lida Pet-Soede
Within the framework of FAO’s global capacity development program to assist States in strengthening national policy and legislative frameworks and in enhancing national means and competencies to combat illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing through port State measures (PSMs) and related instruments, guidelines, mechanisms and tools, the following tasks were implemented:
a comprehensive analysis of the implementation of the PSMA in the (1) Asia and (2) the Pacific regions based on the questionnaires sent out to countries;
analysis with aspects of how countries in the two regions meet their flag, coastal and market State responsibilities in complying with the relevant international agreements to analyze the broader readiness in the region to effectively implement measures to combat IUU fishing; and
provision of an overview of existing initiatives and mechanisms for regional information-sharing and cooperation and analyze these in their effectiveness to support the implementation of the PSMA.