Ocean

90% of fish stocks are used up – fisheries subsidies must stop emptying the ocean

Little soles caught by a North Sea trawler

Soles caught by a North Sea trawler Image: REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

Mukhisa Kituyi
Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Peter Thomson
UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Ocean and Co-Chair, Friends of Ocean Action
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