A Potential bright spot: The WTO negotiations on fisheries subsidies can help conservation and sustainable exploitation efforts as well as ensure the well-being of fishing communities around the world

T. Gonzales, Aimee (2017) A Potential bright spot: The WTO negotiations on fisheries subsidies can help conservation and sustainable exploitation efforts as well as ensure the well-being of fishing communities around the world. Samudra Report (76). pp. 26-27. ISSN 0973 1121

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Abstract

After an extended period of relative inactivity, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has revitalized negotiations on a number of trade issues, notably, on the reform on fisheries subsidies. Several proposals have recently been tabled. (The latest WTO submissions on fisheries subsidies came from the European Union; Rwanda, on behalf of the African, Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) group; Peru, Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, and Uruguay; Benin, on behalf of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) group; Japan and New Zealand with Iceland and Pakistan.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.SAM1018
Keywords:	Samudra Report, ICSF, Small-scale Fisheries, SSF Guidelines, Subsidies, World Trade Organisation (WTO), Special and Differential treatments, Subsistence Fisheries, Marine Conservation
Subjects:	Fisheries Trade
Depositing User:	Varsha V icsf
Date Deposited:	29 Sep 2021 08:00
Last Modified:	29 Mar 2022 11:59
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/1589

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