Trade and Sustainable Fisheries
Sumaila, U. Rashid | February 2017
Abstract
The ultimate goal of this contribution is to formulate fish trade policy recommendations that can be deployed to help achieve the relevant Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (SDGs). Even though all the 17 SDGs are relevant to the issues addressed in this contribution, I will focus on SDG14: Life under the water, and also SDG 1 (No poverty); 2 (Zero hunger); 3 (Gender equality); 4: (Reduced inequality); and 12 (Responsible consumption and production). Before I get to the recommendations, I will review the literature on the relationship between fish trade and sustainable fisheries; and discuss the potential promise (pros) and perils (costs) of fish trade. Policy recommendations for using fish trade to support the SDGs are provided under different headings that capture the main concerns highlighted in the literature when it comes to ensuring the sustainability of fisheries in general and those related to the impact of trade on fisheries sustainability in particular. The policy measures presented in this chapter have the potential to help ensure that trade in fish and fish products would support the implementation of the SDGs.
Citation
Sumaila, U. Rashid. 2017. Trade and Sustainable Fisheries. © Asian Development Bank Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/8753.Keywords
Aquaculture Development
Development Economics
Export Development
Regional Development
Fishing Industry
Fishery Industry
Trade Flows
Trade And Development
Food Security And Trade
Trade Volume
Trade Potential
Trade Flows
External Trade
Industrial policy
New technology
Innovations
Industry
Export policy
Import policy
Trade Unions
Fishery development
Economic development
Development potential
Fishery projects
Local Industry
Fishery Economics
Fishery Product Processing
Trade development
Import volume
Export volume
Food trade
Food industry and trade
Fishery products
Economic development projects
Developing countries
Developing island countries
Partnership
Joint venture
System analysis
Labor and globalization
Labor policy
Regional trading blocs
Foreign trade and employment
Developing countries
Industrial priorities
Technological innovation
Technology transfer
Foreign trade regulation
Industrial relations
Trade-unions
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