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Author: Jovana Ruzicic
Website: http://www.enviroblog.org/2009/03/support-for-overfishing.ht…
Special to Enviroblog by Renee Sharp, Director, EWG California Office
This week, EWG published a peer-reviewed paper on fishing subsidies that was almost four years in the making. Sound boring? Think again.
First, there is the plain fact that the world’s oceans are in serious peril. If the overload of press recent press stories weren’t enough to convince you, then these stark numbers should: in 2007 the National Marine Fishery Service determined that a 24 percent of the nation’s 530 monitored stocks were overfished and 17 percent were experiencing overfishing. The international Food and Agriculture Organization has come up with similar estimates for the depletion of global fish stocks.
Second, the numbers are so dang big: the U.S. government doled out more than $6.4 billion from 1996 to 2004, or an average of $713 million per year.
No one is suggesting that all of these subsidies are harmful or contributing to overfishing. But it is likely that many of them do encourage…
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