The Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA) to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing provides "all the instruments necessary” to achieve the goal of stopping rogue fishing practices, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Director-General José Graziano da Silva told the inaugural meeting of the PSMA parties.
The one-year-old treaty restricts port access to fishing vessels that fail to comply with a set of rul…
