Fisheries

Anthony Cox, OECD Publication. Provides details of the OECD's work on government financial transfers to fisheries, particularly in terms of definition, collection, use and dissemination.

Ronald P. Steenblik, OECD Publication. Historical review of multilateral efforts since 1940 to reduce, eliminate, prohibit or otherwise discipline subsidies. Covers three natural-resource based industries: farming, coal mining and fishing.

(Symposium Proceedings). WWF and European Policy Centre. 28-29 November 2000, Brussels, Belgium.

(DOC). John Virdin with David Schorr. WWF Technical Paper.  Data synthesis provides comprehensive collection and review of data on fishing subsidies published to date, including review of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and OECD reports. Presents new evidence that collective subsidies from governments to fishery industry at the time were occurring at a massive scale.

Gareth Porter, UNEP Publications. Discusses scope of fishery subsidy problems and options for reform.

Anthony Cox and Carl-Christian Schmidt, OECD. Reviews recent work in the OECD on fisheries subsidies and identify areas for which future research would be beneficial.

Olav Schram Stokke and Clare Coffey. The Fridtjof Nansen Institute  and Institute for European Environmental Policy. 

William Shrank for the FAO. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 437. Overview of the nature and impact of fisheries subsidies.