This report presents the analysis and findings of the ISU’s research and consultative work in seeking to understand what is necessary to achieve more sustainable fisheries worldwide.
At the WTO’s Eleventh Ministerial Conference in December 2017, ministers adopted a Decision on Fisheries Subsidies directing negotiators to continue talks with a view to adopting an agreement by 2019, the year of the next ministerial conference.
The decline of global fish stocks has implications for both the food security and the livelihoods of many communities around the world.
Global marine fisheries are in crisis. The proportion of fisheries that are fully fished, overfished, depleted, or recovering from overfishing increased from just over 60 percent in the mid-1970s to about 75 percent in 2005 and to almost 90 percent in 2013.