This is the question that Part-time Professor Monim Benaissa sets out to answer in a new book chapter entitled “La mise en œuvre de l’objectif de développement durable numéro 14 de l’ONU relatif aux océans et l’élimination des subventions publiques nuisibles à la pêche” (“Implementing UN Sustainable Development Goal 14 on oceans and eliminating harmful public subsidies to fishing”), included in a new publication, Le droit international du développement: évolution ou révolution? Hommage au professeur Hervé Cassan (Éditions A. Pedone).
Despite global awareness of the environmental harm caused by fishing subsidies and UN recommendations to reform these policies for sustainability, the fishing industry continues to receive substantial public funding. Professor Benaissa critically examines how these subsidies and regulations impact the sustainable development of global fisheries and highlights the need to align national policies with the new WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies.
Professor Benaissa was formerly a doctoral student at the Faculty of Law. He successfully defended his thesis in September 2023. His thesis supervisor and co-supervisor were the Common Law Section’s Marel Katsivela and the Civil Law Section’s Vincent Caron, respectively.
Professor Benaissa’s chapter is part of a collection that pays tribute to Professor Hervé Cassan (1947-2021), a strong promoter of international development law. The book stems from a conference held in honour of Professor Cassan’s work in 2022 at the Université de Sherbrooke's Faculty of Law. The lead editor of the book is Pierre-François Mercure, a Full Professor in the Faculty of Law at the Université de Sherbrooke who researches international development law, and was a former colleague of Professor Cassan.