Exploring hypothetical transfer of harmful fisheries subsidies to support low-income fishers
Not only a cheap and accessible food source, fish is also a source of income for low-income fishers working in fisheries. However, relying on fish is becoming a risky gamble.
Daniel Pauly and Rashid Sumaila featured in new film pushing for WTO Agreement on fisheries subsidies
Dr. Daniel Pauly, and Dr. Rashid Sumaila, feature in a new film aimed at supporting a critical World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement on fishing subsidies, as the international community races to lock the deal in place before it expires in 2024.
Developing nations at risk from harmful fisheries subsidies, UBC study states
Harmful fisheries subsidies are leading to more fishing vessels chasing fewer fish, resulting in adverse environmental and societal impacts.
Scientists urge WTO to ban subsidies that promote overfishing
Scientists are calling on the World Trade Organization (WTO) to ban subsidies that can cause overfishing at its meeting next week.
WEBINAR: Subsidizing extinction: Subsidies, Sustainable Development Goals and the World Trade Organization
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Nearly 300 scientists ask the WTO to ban harmful fisheries subsidies
The researchers feel the WTO could use their upcoming meeting to sign an agreement that forbids such harmful practices, while allowing for small-scale, sustainably managed wild fisheries.
China and the E.U. aren’t the only ones to blame for harmful fisheries subsidies
“Don’t think that just because you’re not providing six billion dollars that you’re not impacting, or potentially impacting the sustainability of the fish stock.”
Q & A: The EU needs to end its provision of harmful fisheries subsidies
“The problem with harmful fisheries subsidies is that although they might support job security and raise income… they undermine a renewable resource that is technically owned by everyone. Fishing can’t exist without the fish.”
Half of all high seas fishing grounds would be unprofitable without current subsidies
As much as 54% of the high seas fishing industry would be unprofitable at its current scale without large government subsidies.
Subsidies promote overfishing and hurt small-scale fishers worldwide
Large-scale fisheries receive about four times more subsidies than their small-scale counterparts, with up to 60 per cent of those subsidies promoting overfishing.