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FAO
Fisheries Department
There is a large amount of material on the web describing the overfishing and overcapacity problems. A search for overfishing in one of the search engines, such as Yahoo!, usually turns up numerous comments, news releases and documents from a variety of sources although these are not always very useful. Listed below are some of the more interesting or informative documents the appear to be available: International Plan of Action for the Management of Fishing Capacity FAO Consultation on
Management of Fishing Capacity Greenpeace
Oceans campaign
WWF:
Endangered Seas campaign
SeaWeb
Marine
Fishing Trends Articles from the Mining Company's Fisheries section:
Overfishing
Threatens Sea's Bounty Are We Headed
Toward A Fishless Ocean? Oceans of Trouble The Tragedy of
the Commons Historical
Landings - World Harvests Mining
Company's Environment Guide: Fisheries
Managing
Fishing Capacity: A Review of Policy and Technical Issues
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The FAO International Plan of Action for the Management of Fishing Capacity Dominique Gréboval |
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Capacity, Excess Capacity, and Fisheries Management John M. Ward |
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Income
Subsidies and Incentives to Overfish Erik Poole Three papers presented at the IIFET 2000 Conference. |
The International Plan of Action for the Management of Fishing Capacity and Selected Issues Pertaining to Illegal Unregulated and Unreported Fishing [pdf; also in Word]
Paper by Dominique F. Gréboval from the Sydney Expert Consultation on IUU fishing (May 2000)
World
Trade Organization: Subsidies
Information from the WTO website on
subsidies and the Agreement
on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures.
Fishing
in the Dark
Information and documents from a symposium organized by WWF
and the European Policy Centre in Brussels, November 2000 on transparency
and accountability in fishing subsidies. The Proceedings
are available on-line (although some papers only as audio files). The
links below are to selected documents and papers [all pdf files]:
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Symposium
Overview |
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Evidence
of Poor Transparency in Fishing Subsidy Programmes Background Report by WWF. |
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Reforming
European Union Fisheries Subsidies A briefing paper by the Institute for European Environmental Policy |
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Effects
Of Subsidised distant Water Fleets on the Marine Environment and
Local People in Western Africa Souleymane Zeba, Director, WWF West Africa Programme Office |
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The
Application of European Right to Know Laws to Fishing Subsidies Carolina Lasén Diaz, Staff Lawyer, Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD) |
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The
Framework of Access to Information on Fisheries Subsidies and
Related Economic Actions. A Review of Access, Disclosure and
Transparency Frameworks in Selected Countries Kwame Mfodwo, Law School, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
Overcapacity,
Overcapitalisation and Subsidies in European Fisheries
Proceedings of the first Concerted Action Workshop on Economics and
the Common Fisheries Policy, Portsmouth, UK, October 1998. Contains
several papers.
Study
on economic
assistance to the OECD's fisheries sector
On-line copy of the OECD report.
International
work on fishing subsidies - an update
Paper by Gordon
Munro and Ronald P. Steenblik. Update of a paper presented at the First
Workshop of the EU Concerted Action on Economics and the Common
Fisheries Policy, 28-30 October 1998, Portsmouth, UK
Previous
multilateral efforts to discipline subsidies to natural resource based industries
Paper by Ronald P. Steenblik, prepared for the Workshop on
the Impact of Government Financial Transfers on Fisheries Management,
Resource Sustainability, and International Trade, 17-19 August 1998,
Manila, Philippines.
Subsidies
to Marine Capture Fisheries: The International Information Gap
Ronald P. Steenblik and
Paul F. Wallis
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IUU fishing |
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Bycatch |
Driftnet fishing |
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Other issues |