WTO Members Hold First 'Fish Week' Ahead of 2nd Wave of Fisheries Talks
World Trade Organization members, during the first in a planned series of "Fish Weeks," laid out the foundation for an agreement on fisheries subsidies to be achieved by the next Ministerial Conference in February 2024, said Einar Gunnarsson, who chaired…
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the March 20-24 talks. The talks were "very successful," Gunnarsson said. He said the next Fish Week, scheduled for April 25-28, will be the "beginning of our discussions of how to get to the result we want." Members also discussed that special and differential treatment will be "an integral part of the negotiations," the WTO said, and made a "general call" to safeguard the livelihood and food security of small fishers.