Op-ed: To Prove its Climate and Biodiversity Ambitions the EU Must Protect the Ocean’s Carbon Engineers
An op-ed article by Drs. William Cheung and Rashid Sumaila regarding the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP15, that is currently taking place opened in Montreal.
Kx Spotlight – Collaboration, the key to fighting climate change
With partnerships spanning across disciplines, sectors and borders, and with academics and non-academics (including Indigenous communities, NGOs, policy makers, businesses and media) collaboration is at the centre of their work.
Welcome to new postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Daomin Peng
The Fisheries Economics Research Unit is happy to welcome new postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Daomin Peng. Daomin graduated from Ocean University of China (Fisheries Economics and Management) program. His research interests while undertaking his degree focused on the relationship between industrial development and ecological environment. As a member of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit team, his […]
B.C. ocean’s worth of almost $5 billion to GDP likely an underestimate
The ocean is very valuable to B.C., in terms of GDP, jobs, and income.
IOF professors head to United Nations Ocean Conference
Dr. William Cheung & Dr. Rashid Sumaila are off to Portugal for the United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC), being held June 27 to July 1. Will participate in special side event: Fisheries Management as Climate Action, on June 26.
FERU welcomes Dr. Ilyass Dahmouni
The Fisheries Economics Research Unit (FERU) and the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries would like to welcome Dr. Ilyass Dahmouni. Dr. Dahmouni is a holder of two master degrees, in environmental and natural resources economics from the Toulouse School of Economics; and in public policy from the Paris Sorbonne university. He received his PhD degree […]
Book Launch: Infinity Fish by Dr. Rashid Sumaila
Pursuing systematic change in the fisheries sector or interested in the preservation of marine resources? Join us for this virtual book launch by author and professor Rashid Sumaila and engage in a discussion on his new book, Infinity Fish: Economics and the Future of Fish and Fisheries. Welcome Remarks: Arthur Bledsoe, Student, Master of Public […]
Europe’s most valuable marine species “reduced to a fraction” of their current population size by 2100
Over one quarter of Europe’s 20 most highly-fished marine species will be under extreme pressure by 2100 if nothing is done to simultaneously halt climate change, overfishing, and mercury pollution
FERU welcomes new volunteer research associate Russell Goulet
Russell is currently based in Vancouver, working at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) in the Economic Analysis and Statistics team where he supports socio-economic assessments and produces economic advice for proposed and existing policies and programs that impact fishers and fishing dependent communities. He recently finished a Masters in Food and Resource Economics, […]