A Canadian researcher is at the centre of a provocative new international study that puts an eye-popping price tag on the damage being done to the world’s oceans and fisheries – a cost that could reach $2 trillion a year by 2100 – from carbon emissions, over-fertilization, over-fishing and other human impacts.
University of British Columbia fisheries economist Rashid Sumaila, a leading critic of international fishing policies, is co-editor of the 300-page Valuing The Ocean report released last week at the high-profile Planet Under Pressure environmental conference in Britain.
Read the full article in the Calgary Herald.
Read a summary of the report, Valuing the Ocean, on the Stockholm Environment Institute website.