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More on the fishing subsidies problem
There's a large human cost to subsidizing European fishing fleets in West Africa |
Andrew Sharpless |
14 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Today's front page New York Times story -- 'Europe Takes Africa's Fish, and Boatloads of Migrants Follow' -- chronicles the human cost of overfishing. Fueled by billions in government subsidies, European fleets empty out West African waters, leaving nothing for subsistence fishermen. I wrote about this in an earlier post, but it's an important enough issue to warrant reiteration. Wasteful subsidies promote mismanagement on both the European and African sid ... |
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| Topics: Africa, fishing, international politics, oceans, politics (all these topics) |
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A proposal in the making
New developments in WTO fisheries subsidies negotiations |
Andrew Sharpless |
10 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Some new ideas by Brazil and Argentina during the Doha round negotiations at the World Trade Organization have left me feeling rather optimistic about the ability of the WTO to actually help address one of the world's biggest environmental problems: global overfishing. Their proposal is a real attempt by developing countries in the ongoing negotiations about fisheries subsidies to establish some rules to prevent countries from subsidizing their fishing sector w ... |
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| Topics: fishing, international politics, oceans, politics (all these topics) |
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It's time to cut the bait
Too many boats are fishing for too few fish |
Andrew Sharpless |
03 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Here's a remarkable fact: Global fishery collapse is financed with tax money. You already know that many nations are failing to enforce the laws that are essential to keeping our oceans healthy and abundant forever. Instead, they are presiding over a global ocean collapse. According to a report in Science, 29 percent of the world's commercial fisheries have already collapsed. This is terrible news for the billion people who turn to the ocean for protein, th ... |
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| Topics: fishing, international politics, oceans, politics (all these topics) |
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Just Say Noh
Forty nations condemn Japan's 'scientific' whale hunt |
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31 May 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Just Say Noh Forty nations condemn Japan's "scientific" whale hunt The International Whaling Commission has been meeting in Anchorage this week, and as always, Japan is making a splash. Yesterday saw fierce debate over a resolution condemning that country's "scientific hunt," in which it's allowed to kill about 1,000 Antarctic whales. The resolution, sponsored ... |
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| Topics: fishing, international politics, Japan, news, oceans, politics, whaling (all these topics) |
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