Fishing is like a bank account
Photo courtesy of: The Daily Mail A recent post on the Science Magazine news blog repeats a comment by Elliot Norse of the Marine Conservation Biology Institute. Regarding deep sea fisheries, Dr. Norse says: “A population of fish is like a bank account, and its productivity is like the interest it earns. In shallow waters, […]
Overfishing the oceans YouTube
Below is a short video that looks to be a mashup of clips from around the web including one of Dr. Sumaila. Watch below or click through to the YouTube clip.
Scenarios of global biodiversity
Head of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit, Rashid Sumaila is excited to have his first appearance in the journal Science, co-authoring an article titled “Scenarios for Global Biodiversity in the 21st Century.” The article, which first appeared online yesterday explores scenarios of biodiversity changes in the future using metrics such as species extinctions, species abundance […]
New tone in WTO fish talks
Negotiators at the WTO are reportedly optimistic about recent advances on talks to curb fisheries subsidies. While significant differences remain, a new mood is said to surround discussions and the ambassador of one industrialized nation is reported to have said that talks are now focusing on the most harmful of subsidies, rather than subsidies in […]
Global ocean economics project papers published
On Tuesday Sep. 14, 2010, four papers stemming from the Global Ocean Economics Project were released in a special issue of the Journal of Bioeconomics. The four papers and their relationship to one another are described in an introduction to the special issue. Thanks to all the contributing authors for their hard work and to […]
The global ocean economics project at IIFET 2010
Members of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit recently had the pleasure of presenting a summary of our work on the Global Ocean Economics Project to a packed room at the 2010 meeting of the International Institute for Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET). It was great to see a so many people interested in our work, […]
Contributions to the Green Economy Report
The Fisheries Economics Research Unit has been working hard to prepare a chapter for the upcoming Green Economy Report, which is part of the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Green Economy Initiative. For our contribution to the Report, which is to organize and prepare the fisheries chapter, we have been in collaboration with more than […]
Asian Development Bank meets in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
The Asian Development Bank’s annual meeting this year was in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and sustainable fisheries were hot on the agenda. The Fisheries Economics Research Unit’s Dr. Rashid Sumaila was in attendance to speak about the importance of overfishing to Asia, which, consumes more than two thirds of the landings from the world’s marine environments. Dr. […]
End of the line film plugged by Ellen DeGeneres
The star of the Ellen DeGeneres show has recently plugged the documentary film End of Line in which Dr. Sumaila is featured. From Ellen’s Twitter stream recently: “Have you heard of this documentary “End of the Line?” I just heard about it. If you care about the planet, please watch it.” and again appealing to […]
Graduate discusses global seafood sustainability in Science magazine's policy forum
Ahmed Khan, a graduate of UBC’s Fisheries Economics Research Unit now studying at Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada says that Governance may be an influential factor to consider when it comes to seafood supply. This comes from a recent article in Science magazine’s policy forum titled Sustainability and Global Seafood which appeared in the February […]