Mercatus Center | Badri Narayanan and M. Krishnan Navigate the Choppy Waters of Fisheries Negotiations @MercatusCenter | Uploaded March 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Today my guests are M. Krishnan (researchgate.net/profile/M-Krishnan) and Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan (sites.google.com/site/badrinarayanang/?pli=1) . M. Krishnan is an economist based in Chennai and Singapore, and specializes in agriculture education systems, fisheries, and aquaculture research. He is currently an advisor at Infinite-Sum Modeling Inc and was a distinguished scientist of the Agricultural Research Service of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan is an economist specializing in trade and international policy. He is a Fellow at the (NITI) Aayog, Government of India, where he formerly led the institution’s sections on Trade and Commerce, Strategic Economic Dialogue, International Cooperation, and Vision India@2047.
Today we are discussing their recent coauthored paper titled Indian Fisheries in the Context of WTO Regulations (mercatus.org/research/policy-briefs/indian-fisheries-context-wto-regulations) , published by the Mercatus Center in collaboration with Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh (mercatus.org/future-fisheries-management) . We spoke about the big issues concerning fisheres, in particular, India’s interests in at the 13th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) recently held in Abu Dhabi.
Recorded March 13th, 2024.
Read a full transcript (about:invalid#zCSafez) enhanced with helpful links.
Timestamps
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:01:50) - Fisheries in India
(00:13:46) - Overfishing and Illegal Fishing in India
(00:19:59) - Overfishing Negotiations
(00:22:01) - Subsidies
(00:26:27) - At the Negotiating Table
(00:28:24) - IUUs
(00:33:01) - Seasonal Fishing Ban
(00:37:33) - Leading the Global South
(00:45:17) - Measurement
(00:48:47) - Domestic Politics
(00:53:35) - The Future
(00:59:38) - Outro
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Today my guests are M. Krishnan (researchgate.net/profile/M-Krishnan) and Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan (sites.google.com/site/badrinarayanang/?pli=1) . M. Krishnan is an economist based in Chennai and Singapore, and specializes in agriculture education systems, fisheries, and aquaculture research. He is currently an advisor at Infinite-Sum Modeling Inc and was a distinguished scientist of the Agricultural Research Service of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan is an economist specializing in trade and international policy. He is a Fellow at the (NITI) Aayog, Government of India, where he formerly led the institution’s sections on Trade and Commerce, Strategic Economic Dialogue, International Cooperation, and Vision India@2047.
Today we are discussing their recent coauthored paper titled Indian Fisheries in the Context of WTO Regulations (mercatus.org/research/policy-briefs/indian-fisheries-context-wto-regulations) , published by the Mercatus Center in collaboration with Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh (mercatus.org/future-fisheries-management) . We spoke about the big issues concerning fisheres, in particular, India’s interests in at the 13th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) recently held in Abu Dhabi.
Recorded March 13th, 2024.
Read a full transcript (about:invalid#zCSafez) enhanced with helpful links.
Timestamps
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:01:50) - Fisheries in India
(00:13:46) - Overfishing and Illegal Fishing in India
(00:19:59) - Overfishing Negotiations
(00:22:01) - Subsidies
(00:26:27) - At the Negotiating Table
(00:28:24) - IUUs
(00:33:01) - Seasonal Fishing Ban
(00:37:33) - Leading the Global South
(00:45:17) - Measurement
(00:48:47) - Domestic Politics
(00:53:35) - The Future
(00:59:38) - Outro
Connect with Ideas of India
Follow us on X (twitter.com/ideasofindia)
Follow Shruti (twitter.com/srajagopalan) on X
Follow Badri (twitter.com/badrinarayanang) on X
Click here (mercatus.tfaforms.net/5060934) for the latest Ideas of India episodes sent straight to your inbox.
