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 world’s oceans at the same time. He is summarized in the article as saying:
Sumaila thinks this country would benefit from publicly funded retraining to alleviate resource strains. The collapse of cod stocks off the coast of Newfoundland in the 1990s cost 40,000 people their jobs. And a report released earlier this month warned overfishing is pushing salmon stocks to the brink of collapse.
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An archived version of the original article is available here.