2026-05-12 · percent of fishery subsidies
Two-thirds of fishing subsidies are harmful
Fuel tax breaks keep too many boats chasing fewer fish.
Biomass grids are about weight on Earth, not headcount — a whale and a mouse can share a color family but not a cell count story. This grid divides fishery subsidies (2026 snapshot) into colored bands — Capacity-enhancing and Beneficial / neutral — using equal squares so you compare shares, not country size on a map.
1 cell = 0.1 percent of fishery subsidies (0.1% of fishery subsidies) · 1,000 cells
Context
The 2026 figures from World Bank fisheries subsidies put Capacity-enhancing at 63% of fishery subsidies and Beneficial / neutral at 37% — about 100 percent of fishery subsidies in this edition's rounding.
/ WTO: ~60–65% subsidies increase overcapacity.
Sumaila et al. / WTO: ~60–65% subsidies increase overcapacity.
Share and export
Credit this grid as Inagrid — https://inagrid.com/e/2026-05-12-fishing-subsidies