OECD Review of Fisheries 2025

The OECD Review of Fisheries 2025 monitors and analyses fisheries management and support policies in OECD Member countries and other major fishing nations to inform decision makers and help foster sustainable and resilient fisheries that can provide jobs, food, and livelihoods for future generations. The Review assesses the health and productivity of fish stocks and explores how fishing can be better managed. It monitors spending on fisheries subsidies, building on the OECD Fisheries Support Estimate (FSE) database, the most comprehensive and detailed collection of country-level data on government support to fisheries, and presents a framework to help governments identify where support risks encouraging unsustainable fishing. The Review also proposes concrete recommendations to mitigate these risks through better design and targeting of support policies. Finally, this edition discusses climate change adaptation and mitigation in fisheries, and examines some of the gender-specific issues in fisheries.