Around 50 developing nations support India's stance on fisheries subsidies at the World Trade Organization. India advocates for per capita ...

"India urged the members to introduce a moratorium on subsidies by Distant Water Fishing Nations for fishing or fishing-related activities ...

Joint Secretary in the Department of Fisheries J Balaji said that in the recently concluded ministerial conference of the World Trade Organ...

The draft also allows only seven years’ transition period for developing countries as against India’s proposal that developing countries no...

New Delhi is keen to finalise the fisheries subsidies agreement in the upcoming Twelfth WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12) because irrationa...

It has stated that countries which have developed industrial fishing should take more obligations based on CBDR (Common But Differentiated ...

The trade union said that it is the organised sector’s fishing which catches fish through mechanised trawlers and huge ships particularly b...

Linkage of labour with fisheries negotiations also raises systemic issues about linking human rights to trade laws, which has been an unres...

As per India's proposal submitted at WTO, overfishing would be self-determined by a member or by Regional Fishery Management Organisation.

These countries have also sought more time to implement the norms or disciplines, which would be finalised after complete negotiations, on ...

The US and EU have argued that the proposal before the World Trade Organisation (WTO) – which seeks to exempt countries with national incom...

The push was made in the first of the six clusters of fish subsidy talks held last week at WTO, aimed at securing a global agreement on red...

The European Union's inclusions to IUU ( illegal, unreported and unregulated) fishing has raised reluctance by India, Sri Lanka and the gro...

The US and European Union (EU) have opposed the proposal as they give such subsidies to transport and water sports sector.

The 164 members of the World Trade Organization are divided over the kind of prohibitions to be put in place for the fish subsidies and som...

Centre for WTO Studies (CWS) in a working paper has said that the disciplines on fishery subsidies have a market access agenda and a clear ...

The Government is aware of a study done by University of British Colombia which primarily raises the issues of high fisheries subsidies.