Recognizing a growing but already highly successful career, the University of British Columbia’s College for Interdisciplinary Studies (CFIS) has named Dr. Ussif Rashid Sumaila as the Director of the Fisheries Centre.
This announcement will bring many new challenges and opportunities to Rashid who is also the Director of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit. Research groups that will now fall within Rashid’s stewardship at the Fisheries Centre include the Fisheries Ecosystems Restoration Research (FERR), Project Seahorse, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Sea Around Us Project, Quantitative Modeling Group, and Aboriginal Fisheries Research Unit.
We would like to wish Dr. Sumaila the best of luck in his new position. Congratulations Rashid!!