1. WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies.
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Sumaila, U. Rashid, Skerritt, Daniel, Schuhbauer, Anna, Villasante, Sebastian, Cisneros-Montemayor, Andres. M., Sinan, Hussain, and Burnside, Duncan
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FISHERIES , *SUBSIDIES , *OVERFISHING , *BIODIVERSITY , *CARBON dioxide , *MARKET prices - Abstract
The article calls on the World Trade Organization (WTO) to eliminate harmful fisheries subsidies to curb overfishing, biodiversity degradation and loss, and carbon dioxide emissions. Fisheries subsidies that cause harm include those that lower the cost of fuel and vessel construction, those that provide price support to keep market prices artificially high, and those provided to distant-water fishing fleets.
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- 2021
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