Moldova Accepts WTO Fisheries Deal

Moldova Accepts WTO Fisheries Deal

Moldova formally accepted the World Trade Organization Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies on April 8, bringing the number of countries that have accepted the deal to 96. The WTO needs 15 more countries to accept to get to two-thirds of the...

Fisheries disrupt balance of marine nutrients in countries’ Exclusive Economic Zones

Bottom trawling in the North Sea . Image by Ifremer. The 4 billion tonnes of marine organisms that global fisheries extracted from the ocean between 1960 and 2018 resulted in the depletion of over 560 million tonnes of essential nutrients vital to ecosystem health, new research has found. In a recent paper published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, researchers at Utah State University and the Sea Around Us initiative at the Uni…