due to other priorities fisheries subsidies did not make it into the nairobi package raising serious questions about the ability of wto members to support sdg target by global ocean commission a in a statement issued in nairobi a group of countries reiterated their view that subsidies contributing to the exploitation of overfished stocks and illegal unregulated and unreported iuu fishing should be phased out it remains to be seen whether this will be sufficient to enforce the sdg deadline for harmful fisheries subsidies elimination it also impacts other sdg targets due to be achieved by in less than five years such as target on coastal and marine ecosystem management target on iuu fishing and target on marine protected areas