Marília Santos
Agência Brasil

Brasília – Brazil will take to the World Trade Organization meeting, in Geneva, on the 13th, a proposal to expand developing countries’ sea fishing fleets, in order to promote their fishing industries.

In an interview to the Brazilian National Radio, the Subsecretary of Aquiculture and Fishing, David Lourenço, said, "other countries, such as India, have this need, and it is necessary for Brazil to support this special treatment."

He recalled that fish stocks "are available to Brazil and, if not captured, will migrate, and other countries will catch them. And we are not able to catch everything allowed by international quotas." Lourenço said that for the next years the program Pró-Frota Pesqueiro has approximately US$454 million (R$1.2 billion) to finance sea fishing vessels, although it is the country’s opinion that fisheries subsidies should be prohibited.

Translation: Andréa Alves