WTO members seek more data for second stage of fisheries subsidies talks

World Trade Organization negotiators are seeking more data on the use of subsidies contributing to overcapacity and overfishing in the fishing industry as the foundation for the second stage of talks following a pared-down agreement at the 12th ministerial conference prohibiting a swath of other harmful fisheries subsidies. The push for more data was the largely agreed-to next step to come out of a brainstorming retreat focused on the issue – held just outside Geneva in Evian, France – that...