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Conservation Group 'Confident' About Progress On TPP Fisheries Rules

March 19, 2015 at 9:17 PM
Following the release of a White House action plan last week that calls for using trade agreements as a tool to crack down on subsidies that promote overfishing, a lawyer for a prominent ocean conservation group said he was confident that Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiators are moving toward provisions in the deal that would help do just that. Eric Bilsky, an assistant general counsel for Oceana, indicated in a March 18 interview that the organization has "every reason to believe"...

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