The award was presented during the launching of the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA) at the Food Agriculture Organization (FAO) Headquarters in Rome, Italy recently.
Vanuatu’s Permanent Representative to the FAO, Ambassador Roy Mickey Joy, received the award on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Livestock, and Bio-Security and the Government as a whole. Vanuatu joints two other FFA members States of Tonga and Palau to receive the FAO Awards in recognition for their effort to prevent, deter and eliminate IUU fishing in their fisheries.
