The Caribbean region is home to some of the world’s most biologically diverse marine resources, which inhabitants rely on for food and economic sustainability. To facilitate the management and conservation of these resources, international and regional fishery bodies have offered capacity building assistance to Caribbean countries, toward full implementation of the Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing. Despite such assistance, less than one-third of Caribbean countries have signed the Agreement. Thus, the present Article provides a toolkit to implement the PSMA in the Caribbean, based on the requirements for implementation, and an assessment of the legal, human resource and financial capacity needs to meet such requirements.

加勒比地区拥有世界上一些生物多样性最丰富的海洋资源，居民依靠这些资源维持食物和经济的可持续性。为促进这些资源的管理和养护，国际和区域渔业机构向加勒比国家提供了能力建设援助，以全面实施《港口国措施协议，以防止、阻止和消除非法、未报告和无管制的捕捞活动》。尽管有这样的援助，但只有不到三分之一的加勒比国家签署了该协定。因此，本条款根据实施要求以及对满足此类要求的法律、人力资源和财务能力需求的评估，提供了在加勒比地区实施 PSMA 的工具包。