Fisheries and the right to food 2012, para. 29

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Increased trade and licence-related and access-related payments can generate revenue for the developing countries concerned. The benefits, however, often continue to be shared unequally. Among the island nations in the western and central Pacific Ocean, for example, most commercial tuna fishing is managed through bilateral agreements with distant-water fishing fleets. The tuna fisheries are estimated to be worth $3 billion annually, yet local countries receive only some 6 per cent of that amount. Research into European Union fisheries agreements conducted in the late 1990s also showed that benefits were unevenly shared. Overall, Union agreements generated more than seven times as much value to European countries (mostly France and Spain) than they did for the host countries.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the right to food
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
  • Environment
  • Food & Nutrition
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • N.A.
Year
2012
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
SR Food, Report to the UNGA (2012), A/67/268, para. 29.
Paragraph number
29