Increasing the Legal and Operational Capacity to Combat IUU Fishing - GCP/INT/321/EC
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Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing undermines national and regional efforts to conserve and manage fish stocks and, as a consequence, inhibits progress towards achieving the goals of long term sustainability. It deprives the poorest and most food insecure people, who depend on fisheries as a critical source of income and livelihood, puts further pressure on the sustainability of marine ecosystems and constitutes both an impediment and a deterrent to private sector development. Despite strong political will at different levels, the introduction of effective measures to tackle IUU fishing has been slow throughout most regions and in many developing countries. While many States have basic fisheries legislation in place, they often lack the enabling policies, laws and regulations to effectively prevent, deter and eliminate IUU fishing. The present project, part of FAO’s Global Programme to support the implementation of the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA) and complementary international instruments to combat IUU fishing, aimed to improve the capacity of the target countries for the effective implementation of port State measures (PSMs) and complementary monitoring, control and surveillance (MCS) operations, measures and tools to combat IUU fishing. Following the project’s inception, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Peru were identified as recipient countries.