Trade and environment

摘要

In 2017, the Committee on Trade and Environment was briefed on global and national efforts to address illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, to which some US$ 10-23 billion is estimated to be lost annually. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) outlined its legal instruments and tools to combat IUU fishing, including the global record of fishing and other vessels, voluntary guidelines for catch documentation schemes, and the Port State Measures Agreement, which entered into force in 2016.