May 1 was a milestone in the fight against illegal, unreported and unregistered (IUU) fishing in the northeast Atlantic Ocean, as that's the day the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) introduced the new regime for port state control.
The initiative for the arrangement with the port state control, based on a proposal from Norway and the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), came from Pedersen, who has worked with this problem ever since she took up the appointment of fisheries and coastal affairs minister in 2005.
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