Assessing the spatial burden of harmful fisheries subsidies

Skerritt, D.J. & Sumaila, UR., Fisheries Economics Research Unit / Oceana Fisheries & Aquaculture

Assessing the spatial burden of harmful fisheries subsidies
Fisheries Economics Research Unit / Oceana

Now, researchers have mapped these subsidy flows for the first time. The top 10 providers of harmful fisheries subsidies spent more than $5.3 billion on fishing in the waters of other nations. That is more than one-third of their total harmful fisheries subsidy spending, according to a study authored by Daniel Skerritt and U. Rashid Sumaila of the University of British Columbia and supported by Oceana.

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