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The Economist: WTO failure to tackle overfishing ‘shameful’

Columnist slams World Trade Organisation's failure to back the 'uncontroversial commitment to end subsidies for illicit fishing'

By Undercurrent News | Dec. 20, 2017 09:43 GMT
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World Trade Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
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A columnist for The Economist has slammed the World Trade Organisation’s failure to end subsidies for illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing at its recent two-yearly meeting [...]

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