The Low Hanging Fish — A review of the seven WTO Draft Proposals addressing harmful fisheries subsidies

15 September 2017

BLOOM and the Varda Group urge all WTO members to reach in the next three months, on time for the Buenos Aires conference, a strong agreement that will provide the framework to eliminate harmful fisheries subsidies by the year 2020. The ocean and and fishers whose livelihoods are dependent on a healthy and productive ocean cannot further wait for strong collective action that will put a halt to the ongoing destruction of jobs and natural resources.

WTO members have submitted proposals in view of the 11th Ministerial Conference that will be held in Buenos Aires in December, which BLOOM and the VARDA Group have analyzed in the report: “The Low Hanging Fish — A review of the seven WTO Draft Proposals addressing harmful fisheries subsidies“.