Foreword by achim steiner introduction 1 fisheries governance subsidies and sustainable development 2 fisheries subsidies and their resource impacts 3 national experiences with subsidies their impacts and reform processes 4 emergence of an international issue history of fisheries subsidies in the wto 5 four key issues at the wto 6. There is a strong connection between fisheries governance sustainable development and how subsidies serve as a stumbling block for meeting sustainability goals egclark et al 2005 von . Earlier this year anja von moltke as editor and his publisher earthscan with the support of the united nations environment programme unep released the book fisheries subsidies sustainable development and the wtothe book is actually a compilation of a long work developed by unep in the last 10 years about the complex relation between subsidies and sustainability in the fisheries activity. Fisheries subsidies sustainable development and the wto it describes the history and current status of the discussions at the wto drawing on uneps key documents and reflecting on the major issues accompanying the book is a cd rom containing full text versions of the most important source material used in the publication