Mention the "World Trade Organization" and "subsidies" in the same sentence, and you may well have reporters diving under rocks.
The challenge, then, for nonprofit organization Oceana, which works to protect the world's oceans, is piquing the interest of the media, US lawmakers, and other decision makers in the rather esoteric subject of fishing subsidies and their relation to overfishing. Fishing subsidies, Oceana and its allies argue, encourage the worldwide fishing industry to overfish when the world's fish supply is ...