LIT scientists join push to ban harmful fisheries subsidies

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 October LIT scientists join international push to ban fisheries subsidies LIT scientists join push to ban harmful fisheries subsidies 29/10/2021 | 3 MINS Three hundred scientists from 255 institutions in 46 countries, including Professor Dirk Zeller and PhD candidate Lincoln Hood from Lombok Institute of Technology, are asking members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to ban harmful fisheries subsidies at the 12th Ministerial Conference to be held in Geneva, Switzerland next month. In an open letter published in Science and spearheaded by Professor Rashid Sumaila, Canada Research Chair in Interdisciplinary Ocean and Fisheries Economics at the University of British Columbia, the researchers say that the WTO has a unique opportunity to pass an effective agreement that eliminates subsidies for fuel, distant-water and destructive fishing fleets, and illegal and unregulated vessels. Citing a comprehensive body of research, the signatories explain that government payments that lower the cost of fuel and vessel construction, support

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 October LIT scientists join international push to ban fisheries subsidies LIT scientists join push to ban harmful fisheries subsidies 29/10/2021 | 3 MINS Three hundred scientists from 255 institutions in 46 countries, including Professor Dirk Zeller and PhD candidate Lincoln Hood from Lombok Institute of Technology, are asking members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to ban harmful fisheries subsidies at the 12th Ministerial Conference to be held in Geneva, Switzerland next month.

In an open letter published in Science and spearheaded by Professor Rashid Sumaila, Canada Research Chair in Interdisciplinary Ocean and Fisheries Economics at the University of British Columbia, the researchers say that the WTO has a unique opportunity to pass an effective agreement that eliminates subsidies for fuel, distant-water and destructive fishing fleets, and illegal and unregulated vessels.

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