Study on Subsidies to the Fisheries, Aquaculture and Seafood Processing and Marketing Sectors in Major Fishing Nations Beyond the EU

The purpose of this study was to collate and standardise information on the value and scope of subsidies to the catching, aquaculture, and marketing and seafood processing subsectors in six of the major fishing nations beyond the EU - Japan, South Korea, China, the Russian Federation, Taiwan and the United States. In order to provide the Commission with the current ‘state of play’ and supporting evidence to frame future decision-making. Data collection used a common template, combined with country-specific instructions on data collection priorities. These priorities were based on reviews of accessible data available for each country. Data collected was used to create country profiles that provide an overview of the fisheries subsectors. The profiles also include details of the information on subsidies provided to the WTO and the OECD, and an assessment of the types of subsidies and values of each derived from the information collected over the course of the study. All subsidy values were presented in 2015 EUR - data in national currency were first adjusted for inflation to 2015 money using a consumer price index for the country and then converted to 2015 EUR using the market exchange rate from World Development Indicators.