WTO Fisheries Agreement: India’s concerns, past opposition, and the road aheadIndia’s decision to ratify the WTO’s Fisheries Subsidies Agreement is a strategic move that balances sustainability with the need to suppor...
17 Oct, 2025, 11.43 AM IST
No consensus on fish subsidies at WTO talksAt the 13th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, no consensus was reached on fisheries subsidies. India seeks special tr...
29 Feb, 2024, 08.13 PM IST
WTO talks on fisheries subsidies is as chaotic as a fish marketEfforts to move from a consensus-based decision making to a voting system at the WTO is not good for global fish trade.
03 Feb, 2024, 09.56 AM IST
Civil society, trade experts urge India not to ratify WTO's agreement on fisheries subsidiesThe signatories of the letter include the National Fishworkers Forum, National Platform for Small Scale Fish Workers, All India Fishers and...
24 Jul, 2023, 06.45 PM IST
WTO fish pact to eliminate illegal fishing sops: Govt to Parliament“Developing Countries and Least Developed Countries have been allowed S&DT with no obligation to implement disciplines for a period of two ...
22 Jul, 2022, 06.28 PM IST
Will pitch for 25-yr exemption at WTO from subsidy cuts for nations not into distant water fishing: OfficialJoint Secretary in the Department of Fisheries J Balaji said that in the recently concluded ministerial conference of the World Trade Organ...
24 Jun, 2022, 08.08 PM IST
WTO: India resists plan to end fish sops in developing countriesChina, the EU and the US dole out $7.3 billion, $3.8 billion and $3.4 billion, respectively, annually as fishery subsidy while India provid...
14 Jun, 2022, 12.26 AM IST
WTO agreement: Blocking subsidy to Indian fishermen to affect millions of fishers, their familiesIndia is not a major fishery subsidy provider unlike countries like China, the European Union (EU) and the US which provide an annual fishe...
13 Jun, 2022, 04.58 PM IST
WTO fish sops pact: Draft leaves out India’s proposals, 25 year exemption cut to 7 yearsThe draft also allows only seven years’ transition period for developing countries as against India’s proposal that developing countries no...
12 Jun, 2022, 12.33 PM IST
India for 25 years exemption from subsidy cuts for developing nations not into distant water fishingIt has stated that countries which have developed industrial fishing should take more obligations based on CBDR (Common But Differentiated ...
24 May, 2022, 09.17 PM IST
India voices concern over US' forced labour proposal amid subsidy talksLinkage of labour with fisheries negotiations also raises systemic issues about linking human rights to trade laws, which has been an unres...
28 Oct, 2021, 08.54 AM IST
Irrational subsidies, overfishing by many countries hurting Indian fishermen, says Piyush Goyal at WTOThe minister has also stated that the proposed agreement has to provide for current and future needs as the per capita fisheries subsidy gi...
15 Jul, 2021, 09.21 PM IST
India seeks fair WTO pact on fish subsidies, says limited S&DT inappropriate, unaffordable, unacceptableSpeaking strongly for the rights of developing countries at the ministerial meeting of the WTO on the crucial fisheries subsidy negotiation...
15 Jul, 2021, 05.22 PM IST
WTO convenes key meeting of trade ministers on July 15 on fisheries subsidiesHectic negotiations are going on in Geneva on the matter. The objective of these negotiations is to discipline subsidies with the overall o...
13 Jun, 2021, 11.47 AM IST
WTO fisheries subsidies: Few developing nations seek complete exemptions for poor fishermenThese countries have also sought more time to implement the norms or disciplines, which would be finalised after complete negotiations, on ...
22 Nov, 2020, 02.32 PM IST
EU, US oppose India on ending sops that aid illegal fishingThe US and European Union (EU) have opposed the proposal as they give such subsidies to transport and water sports sector.
30 May, 2019, 11.50 PM IST
Fish subsidies rise 23%, but India feels it won't be an issueTamil Nadu, Gujarat and Karnataka doled out the highest sops for fisherfolk in 2017-18.
05 Nov, 2018, 08.21 AM IST