On Monday 17 October, the European Commission announced that later this week, the EU will submit to WTO member countries proposals to breathe new life into negotiations on fishing subsidies with a view to avoiding further damage to fish stocks around the world.
The European Commission’s proposal has been given the go-ahead by the member states and tackles the two most damaging types of damaging subsidy: subsidies that increase the capacity of fleets to catch fish that represent almost 60%...