Small-scale Fisheries and Subsidies Disciplines: Definitions, Catches, Revenues, and Subsidies

The information note Small-scale Fisheries and Subsidies Disciplines: Definitions, Catches, Revenues, and Subsidies summarises how small-scale fisheries are identified in international instruments and academic literature and provides estimates of the proportions of total catch, landed value and subsidies that are generated and received by this sector. It provides specific suggestions, based on the findings reported in the paper, of how this socio-economically important sector could be distinguished in the context of subsidy rules in the World Trade Organization.