14/06/2009

UNEP: fisheries subsidies and Oceans Day

UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme joined its voice to those coming from trade quarters (WTO, US Trade Representative) on the need to eliminate “perverse and wasteful subsidies totaling up to USD 35 billion a year” that fuel the over exploitation of the fisheries resources.


Here is the link to the UNEP statement:


http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=585&ArticleID=6162&l=en&t=long

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