The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) convened an event to explore linkages between fisheries and aquaculture production and trade, with a particular emphasis on sustainable and resilient value chains. It also highlighted the importance of new World Trade Organization (WTO) rules on fisheries subsidies to ensure sustainability of common resources and to strengthen the multilateral trading system (MTS).
The session took place on 30 September 2021 as part of the WTO’s 2021 Public Forum.
Marcio Castro de Souza, FAO, moderated the event. He introduced the topic by highlighting that fish is currently the most traded animal protein worldwide, with production organized around complex and highly integrated value chains. The fisheries and aquaculture sectors, he noted, have expanded significantly in recent decades, particularly in developing countries, but have also faced significant challenges in adapting to different crises.
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