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Subsidies promote overfishing and hurt small-scale fishers worldwide
June 1, 2017

Subsidies promote overfishing and hurt small-scale fishers worldwide

Large-scale fisheries receive about four times more subsidies than their small-scale counterparts, with up to 60 per cent of those subsidies promoting overfishing.

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