Last week, Greenpeace released a 74-page report, Trading Away Our Oceans, which concluded that trade liberalization is bad for fish and for communities dependent on fish. Using data from official bodies such as the OECD and the EU, the Greenpeacers determined that liberalization of fisheries will increase the speed at which over-fishing occurs; further increase unsustainable aquaculture production; and have "generally devastating consequences for fish, the wider marine environment, developing countries and the one billion poor people worldwide who depend on fish as their primary source of protein." Ouch.
The report also concludes that developing countries must be provided with the capacity to establish and enforce effective fisheries management systems in their own waters.
[Via NowPublic]
