ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of some of the main uses of fisheries subsidies in Senegal over the past decades, exploring their links to Senegal's general strategy for its fisheries sector and discussing their apparent impacts on sustainability. The international debate over fisheries subsidies has always had as its ultimate focus the practical experiences of governments and fishing industries at the national or even sub-national level. UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has been one of the leading sponsors of fisheries subsidies country studies, having commissioned papers examining the realities on the ground in Argentina, Bangladesh, Ecuador, Senegal and Vietnam. The granting of export subsidies was part of a general policy of encouraging exports to international markets. Subsidies for sanitary improvements, ice plants and freezing and refrigerated rooms for use by the small-scale fisheries do not as such have direct adverse impacts on fish stocks.
