FIVE regional port state measures workshops have been held: Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean, southern Africa and Southeast Asia.
Co-operation on port state measures has deepened as a result in all five regions. In the case of the Mediterranean workshop, a regional scheme on port state measures was generated and subsequently adopted by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean.
Additional national level workshops were held in Mauritania and Senegal in June 2008, with follow-up sessions scheduled for July 2008.
FAO has received numerous requests from other regional blocs for additional workshops and would like to organise at least six more by 2010 in the Near East, Caribbean, West Africa, South Asia, Central America and South America.
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