Fisheries subsidies discussed by MacLean's magazine
Nancy Macdonald of MacLean’s magazine uses some information from Catching more bait: a bottom-up re-estimation of global fisheries subsidies in a recent article available on-line. She references our estimate of more than $US 30 billion in subsidies to global fishing fleets annually. Photo by: Grantsviews (via Flickr) Macdonald accurately suggests that low food prices are […]
Climate change to cost global fisheries US$ 10 billion per year according to new World Bank report
A new World Bank study, authored with contributions by Rashid Sumaila and William Cheung, predicts that the global fisheries sector is likely to lose an estimated $US 9.64 billion in revenues in the year 2050 due to climate change. A draft version of the full report, available here, explains that under one possible climate change […]
Sustainable development session appearance
Recently Dr. Sumaila was in Germany to present some of his work at a session for the European Commission’s 2009 Sustainable Development conference. An audio recording of the session titled “Enhancing global sustainability through international cooperation” is available in it’s entirety. You can listen for Dr. Sumaila’s presentation between 01:40:30 and 02:01:59 of the downloadable […]