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OVERCAPACITY AND OVERFISHING SUBSIDIES
India seeks strong WTO subsidy rules for high seas fishingAt the World Trade Organization, India advocated for stricter regulations on fishing subsidies, highlighting the disparity between its mode...
India pitches for per capita subsidy formula at WTO to protect poor fishpeopleIndia is advocating for a per capita-based approach to fisheries subsidies at the WTO, highlighting the vast disparity between the high sub...
Fish talks at WTO unfair, unbalanced, say small scale fishersFisher organisations from multiple countries express concerns about unfair restrictions on small-scale fishers in developing countries in o...
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.
India asks WTO to weigh carve-out for poor fishing nationsWhile recognising the fact that such access arrangements can help some members generate revenues, especially in some developing countries, ...
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...
WTO launches second wave of fishing subsidy talksThe second stage is a follow-up to the historic agreement on fishing subsidies reached at the 12th WTO ministerial conference in June last ...
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...
India wants WTO fish subsidies pact to be equitableNew Delhi is keen to finalise the fisheries subsidies agreement in the upcoming Twelfth WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12) because irrationa...
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 ...
WTO director-general to visit India soonAt the WTO, India has been pushing for the food security programmes aimed at developing and poor countries to be allowed without any limits...
India seeks curbs at WTO on fishing in distant watersAs per India's proposal submitted at WTO, overfishing would be self-determined by a member or by Regional Fishery Management Organisation.
India proposes limited scope of WTO panel on fisheries subsidiesThe proposal is meant to protect the sovereignty of members in their Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), which is the boundary of the sea zone e...
Pact to end harmful fish subsidies difficult without special and differential treatment: IndiaNew Delhi’s statement comes in the wake of the multilateral trade body likely to consolidate views of member countries on the latest draft ...
India seeks provisions to check harmful fishingThe 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...
India to resist interim ban on fisheries sopsThe 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...
- Developing countries oppose planned subsidy cuts for fisheries
Developing countries, including India, Brazil, China and Mexico, have called for exclusion of small and marginal fishermen from the multila...