Senators urge drive on fishing subsidies - Reuters

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Source: Reuters

Senators urge drive on fishing subsidies

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of senators urged the United States
on Thursday to work to abolish state subsidies that jeopardize the world's fragile
fish stocks.

Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, the top Republican on the Senate Commerce
Committee, was chief sponsor of the resolution, which called for continued efforts
to limit those supports.

"Many countries with subsidized industrial fishing fleets have sought to exploit
not only their own waters, but also the high seas," Stevens said in a statement.
"These subsidies ... must end."

The resolution comes days after a new U.S. proposal was taken up at the World
Trade Organization, a proposal that seeks to limit the kinds of fishing subsidies
the Bush administration argues have led to overfishing around the world.

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1. Excellent Idea

Excellent idea!!! Unfortunately, the world's commercial fishing stocks are dangerously depleted (almost to the brink of extinction in some cases) and need all the help they can get just to stabilize, let alone increase to the point where they can again be sustainable.