The Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (referred to in short as the Port State Measures Agreement ( PSMA )) is a 2009 international treaty of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) designed to prevent and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing .
4-463: PSMA may refer to: Port State Measures Agreement , an international treaty Prostate-specific membrane antigen , a human enzyme See also [ edit ] Proteasome endopeptidase complex subunits: PSMA1 PSMA2 PSMA3 PSMA4 PSMA5 PSMA6 PSMA7 PSMA8 Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
8-454: A port and inform the port of the details of its fishing operations. Permission to dock can be denied if unregulated fishing occurred. The measure is intended to block illegally caught fish from entering the marketplace. Other measures in the treaty include inspections of equipment, paperwork, catches, and ship's records. Though the treaty does not compel countries to apply these measures to ships under their own flags, they may choose to do so under
12-568: The agreement. The treaty was concluded on 22 November 2009 at the 36th Session of the FAO Conference held in Rome . Ninety-one states negotiated and agreed to the treaty text. Twenty-three states signed the treaty while it was open for signature in 2009 and 2010. The treaty entered into force on 5 June 2016, which was 30 days after it was ratified by a 25th state. As of September 2018, the treaty has 55 parties, which includes 54 states plus
16-527: The title PSMA . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PSMA&oldid=1055893807 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Port State Measures Agreement The treaty requires that fishing vessels request permission to dock at
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