Argentina joins FAO treaty against illegal fishing, tightening control in the South Atlantic

Tuesday, July 21st 2026 - 20:18 UTC

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Argentina on July 17 enacted the law approving its accession to the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA) of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a significant step for fisheries governance in the southwest Atlantic. The treaty, in force since 2016, is the only binding international instrument specifically designed to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. Read full article

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Falklands-Free
I wonder why Argentina makes no mention of the fact that in the 2016 agreement between Britain and Argentina that part of that agreement was to include shared scientific fishing Data. The Falklands provided that Data but the Argentines once they recieved it pulled the plug. All they wanted was the information we are using to manage fish stock. Now they accuse us of being a partner to the illegal fishing industry on the high sea's.
They need to be honest in what they are doing.
There is a huge illegal fishing industry operating between the Falkland islands fishing zone and the Argentine one, in international waters and no one can do anything to stop them. So this nonsense by Argentina is untrue. The fact is if they had worked with the Falkland Islanders this illegal fishing might have been stopped. All they had to do was agree with the Falklands to extend their fishing zones to meet each others in the area where this fishing is going on. Problem is though this blue hole as it is know sits just outside the Falklands zone, nowhere near the Argentine zone. That is what is causing the friction and lies.
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Freddie Foster
Argentinian politicians are very immature. that explains everything.
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imoyaro
Agreement with Argentina? Good luck with that...
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Terence Hill
International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the North Sea continental shelf cases, in which Denmark and the Netherlands based their claim inter alia on the doctrine of proximity, i.e., that the part of the continental shelf closest to the part of the state in question falls automatically under that state's jurisdiction. In these cases the ICJ rejected any contiguity type of approach. As for continuity, it is argued, the 1958 Geneva Convention on the Continental Shelf and Contiguous Zone, Article 1, now contained in the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention, Article 76, does not support the view that coastal states have sovereignty over islands above the continental shelf. On the contary it laid down doctrine that islands had their own “continental shelves,” p.74
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