WTO fish sops pact: Draft leaves out India’s proposals, 25 year exemption cut to 7 years

The draft also allows only seven years’ transition period for developing countries as against India’s proposal that developing countries not engaged in distant water fishing should be exempt from overfishing subsidy prohibitions for 25 years. Fishing beyond 200 nautical miles from the seashores of a country is called distant water fishing.

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