New Idea for the New Year #6
December 29, 2008: Alternative media outlet The Tyee has published a list of new ideas for the new year with the Fisheries Economics Research Unit’s Dr. Rashid Sumaila as the focus of New Idea # 6. Dr. Sumaila considers what can be done to improve the lives of fishermen and improve the state of the […]
Cut in Pacific Tuna Catches
December 12, 2008: Dr. Sumaila is quoted in an Associated Press Article on Tuna Catches “The general consensus among scientists is that the stocks of bigeye and yellowfin in the Western and Central Pacific are doing relatively better than those of the Mediterranean bluefin tuna, for example,” Rashid Sumaila, the acting director of the Fisheries […]
One Solution to Save the Oceans
December 10, 2008: Fisheries Economics Research Unit Director, Dr. Rashid Sumaila contributes to an article for Conservation Magazine titled 10 Solutions to Save the Ocean. Dr. Sumaila discuses the issue of subsidies to high seas bottom trawlers saying: Marine ecosystems pay a hefty price for getting orange roughy, Greenland halibut, and deepwater shark to our […]