Mongabay: Could rebuilding global fisheries save hundreds of billions of dollars?
Global fisheries are gutting the world economy by US$13 billion annually, according to an economic analysis published July 13 in the journal PLoS ONE. National subsidies that encourage overfishing cause the most losses, the analysis claims. However, researchers believe that allowing fish stocks to rebuild and making fishing more efficient could reverse these losses, leading […]
Hill Times – Sumaila: Canadian Ocean economies at risk from GHG emissions
Dr. Rashid Sumaila, a professor and director of the Fisheries Centre & the Fisheries Economics Research Unit at UBC, writes about how changing temperatures and ocean chemistry will impact the growth and reproduction of Canada’s marine fish species. “Given the predicted biophysical and ecological effects of the new threats, they will affect the economics of […]
Inter Press Service: Billions in Subsidies Prop up Unsustainable Overfishing
Calls are mounting for the world’s big fishing powers to stop subsidising international fleets that use destructive methods like bottom trawling in foreign coastal waters, drastically reducing the catch of local artisanal fishers who use nets and fishing lines. Such subsidies total 27 billion dollars a year, with nearly two-thirds coming from China, Taiwan and […]
Dr. Sumaila to speak at "Oceans on the Hill" in Ottawa – November 27, 2012
WWF-Canada and The All Party Ocean Caucus co-chairs, Mr. Bruce Stanton, MP and Assistant Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole, and Mr. Fin Donnelly, MP, have welcomed Dr. Rashid Sumaila, Director of the UBC Fisheries Centre and Fisheries Economics Research Unit, to present at the upcoming “Oceans on the Hill” event. Dr. Sumaila will […]