The World Trade Organization and global fisheries sustainability
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The World Trade Organization and global fisheries sustainability Ussif Rashid Sumaila a,∗, Ahmed Khan a, Reg Watson a, Gordon Munro a,b, Dirk Zeller a, Nancy Baron c, Daniel Pauly a a Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4 b Department of Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4 c COMPASS, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), 735 State St. Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, United States
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