Fisheries

(Table of Contents; full web version not available). Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent. Island Press in cooperation with the International Institute for Sustainable Development. One chapter of this book provides a quick overview of global subsidies to fisheries and the damage they cause.

(French). Based on presentation made by David K. Schorr. The stakes in the WTO fishing subsidies negotiations are especially high for many African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. Increased attention to the fishing subsidies issue by capital-based ACP officials is critically needed in the coming months.

Ronald P. Steenblik and Gordon R. Munro, OECD Publication. This paper is an update of one prepared for the First Workshop of the EU Concerted Action on Economics and the Common Fisheries Policy, 28-30 October 1998. Like that paper, it surveys current international work in the area of subsidies to the fisheries sector (as of end-May 1999), with particular reference to ongoing activities in the OECD, the FAO, the CSD, APEC and the WTO.

Fe Sanchis Moreno, prepared for WWF/Adena by TERRA, Environmental Policy Center.  (See chapter 5 in conference proceedings).

Transition to Responsible Fisheries, Modelling the Transition To Responsible Fisheries: Group I Case Studies and Transition to Responsible Fisheries, Government Financial Transfers and Resource Sustainability: Case Studies. OECD Publication. The study covers four distinct areas of work.

Donald Leal, Property and Environment Research Center Publication. Guide argues that rights-based fishing policies, including individual transferable quotas, territorial rights and private harvesting agreements can reduce the costly and destructive "race to fish".  Limited discussion of some of the challenges of ITQs, such

WWF Publication. Despite the positive role that the World Trade Organization could play in controlling fisheries subsidies, the paper argues that negotiators have not yet made conservation and sustainable development real priorities.

WWF Discussion Paper. Outlines WWF proposals for crafting robust fishing subsidy disciplines.

David Schorr, A WWF Position Paper and Technical Resource. Summary: Spanish, French. Outline: Spanish, French.