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Towards Investment in Sustainable Fisheries: A Framework for Financing the Transition

Created Jan 17 2023, 12:27 PM by Vivek Prasad

Marine capture fisheries provide significant benefits at a global and local level. They contribute more than US$270 billion to global GDP, provide nearly three billion people with at least 20% of their total animal protein and employ hundreds of millions of people, the majority of whom are in developing countries. Currently, the benefits of marine capture fisheries are under threat. The good news is that proven solutions and tools exist to help fisheries recover to remove this threat, transition to a healthy and profitable state and secure benefits into the future. Because the transition to sustainable fisheries will inevitably require investments, the question of how the transition will be financed, and by whom, must be answered. Please click here to visit the Environmental Defense Fund page to download the report.