Pirates and Plunder: Fisheries subsidies support illegal or rogue fishing | Oceana

Report | September, 2009

Pirates and Plunder: Fisheries subsidies support illegal or rogue fishing

 

Pirate fishing is a serious global problem and one of the main impediments to the achievement of sustainable world fisheries. Worth between $4 billion and $9 billion per year, pirate fishing represents a major loss of revenue, particularly to some of the poorest countries in the world where dependency on fisheries for food, livelihoods and revenues is high.