The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2020

Parties to the PSMA have recognized the 
importance of access to such basic information 
in order to fulfil the requirements of the PSMA, 
and consequently proposed the establishment 
of a global information exchange system (GIES) 
to facilitate the sharing of information relevant 
to the PSMA. The Parties tasked FAO with 
developing the GIES and established an informal 
working group to provide guidance on the 
elaboration of the system. 
As a first step to allow the exchange of 
information among Parties, FAO has developed 
pilot PSMA applications for States to upload their 
designated ports and national contact points. 
As at February 2020, 49 States had uploaded 
their national contact points, and 39 States had 
uploaded information on their designated ports. 
Regarding the development of the future GIES,