Costello, Christopher and Millage, Katherine and Eisenbarth, Sabrina and Galarza, Elsa and Ishimura, Gakushi and Rubino, Laura Lea and Saccomanno, Vienna and Sumaila, U.Rashid and Strauss, Kent (2020) Ambitious subsidy reform by the WTO presents opportunities for ocean health restoration. Sustainability Science, Vol.16. pp. 1391-1396. ISSN 1862-4057
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) is in a unique position to deliver on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14.6 by reforming global fisheries subsidies in 2020. Yet, a number of unanswered questions threaten to inhibit WTO delegates from crafting a smart agreement that improves global fisheries health. We combine global data on industrial fishing activity, subsidies, and stock assessments to show that: (1) subsidies prop up fishing effort all across the world’s ocean and (2) larger subsidies tend to occur in fisheries that are poorly managed. When combined, this evidence suggests that subsidy reform could have geographically-extensive consequences for many of the world’s largest fisheries. While much work remains to establish causality and make quantitative predictions, this evidence informs the rapidly-evolving policy debate and we conclude with actionable policy suggestions.
| Item Type: | Articles |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Fisheries Subsidies, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), World Trade Organization (WTO), Agreements, Data, Industrial Fisheries, Stock Assessment, Policy |
| Subjects: | Fisheries Trade |
| Depositing User: | Jeeva ICSF Rajan |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jun 2022 10:48 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jun 2022 10:48 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/16955 |
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