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To enable sustainable and equitable fisheries, transparency must be coupled with capacity-building, monitoring, enforcement and truly participatory engagement. (Shutterstock)

Illuminating dark seas: Why fisheries management must be more transparent

One of the greatest challenges facing our oceans is illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. And a vital tool against this is problem is context-specific fisheries transparency.
The World Trade Organization reached an agreement on fisheries subsidies, prohibiting member countries from funding illegal fishing and fishing of overexploited stocks at the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference in Geneva on June 17. (Fabrice Coffrini/Pool Photo/Keystone via AP)

We have a deal. Can we now talk about some not-so-harmful fisheries subsidies?

There is a need for nuanced discussions around the role of fisheries subsidies — even those that may be nominally harmful — to avoid further inequity and marginalization of small-scale fishers.
Tracking the journey of tuna from the seas around Thailand to Australian supermarket shelves shows modern slavery is a pervasive problem. Shutterstock.com

Almost every brand of tuna on supermarket shelves shows why modern slavery laws are needed

Just one brand of tinned tuna in Australian supermarkets is able to confidently claim slavery was not involved in its supply.
A fisherman checks his fish corral nets in the Cau Hai lagoon, Vietnam. Mark Andrachuk

Lessons for sustainable fisheries are hiding in plain sight

When it comes to small-scale fisheries, there is no one route to sustainability. Finding success stories can help map those paths.

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