Communicating information on fisheries subsidies to small-scale fishers in Karnataka

Communicating information on fisheries subsidies to small-scale fishers in Karnataka Aarthi Sridhar, Arundhati Jagadish, Sajan John The dominant global discourse on subsidies in fisheries focuses primarily on the large-scale mechanised fishing sector. This discourse links fisheries subsidies to a number of adverse impacts such as resource over-exploitation, environmental destruction, and social and economic distortions. In contrast, there…