Based out of the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia, the Fisheries Economics Research Unit strives for interdisciplinary solutions to global, national, and local marine and freshwater management issues. We focus on economic and policy analysis and mobilize researchers, students, and practitioners to advance resource management for the benefit of current and future generations, while maintaining ‘healthy’ ecosystems.
(June 26, 2026) As ocean warming and nutrient runoff accelerate deoxygenation, marine ecosystems face shifting baselines that threaten long-term fishery yields. A new paper paper led by former FERU PhD Student Hongsik Kim, and co-authored by FERU Postdocs Louise Teh, Ilyass Dahmouni, Lubna Alam, Ibrahim Issifu, and FERU director Rashid Sumaila, investigates these dynamics by evaluating the projected […] Read More
(June 20, 2026) Sumaila, U. R., Cheung, W. W. L., Palacios-Abrantes, J., & Burnside, D. (2026). Climate change strengthens the case for a high seas fishing ban. Frontiers of Biogeography, 19. https://doi.org/10.21425/fob.19.183549 Climate change isn’t just warming ocean waters, it’s actively redrawing the map of marine life. As ocean temperatures rise, fish stocks are migrating towards cooler waters, […] Read More
(June 4, 2026) Oriana Smy is a social scientist with a Master of Arts Degree in Socio-cultural Anthropology from the University of British Columbia, where she specialized in marine plastic pollution and “ghost gear” in Baja California Sur, Mexico. She is skilled in qualitative and quantitative methods, community-based research, project management, environmental policy, and ethnographic mapping. Oriana is […] Read More