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Fishing Subsidies Must Go, Says UN

UN bodies will be asking countries that provide their fishing industries with subsidies to make that information available so that the incentives can be removed or reduced. "For the majority of fisheries subsidies, there is a strong correlation with overcapacity and overfishing," the bodies say.

Sia Kambou/FAO

Fishermen offloading tuna at the industrial fish port of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

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