FERU’s Dr. Rashid Sumaila Appointed to Canada’s New Expert Taskforce on Natural Capital Accounting and Nature Financing
The Government of Canada has appointed Dr. Rashid Sumaila to a new Expert Taskforce on Natural Capital Accounting and Nature Financing.
Climate change strengthens the case for a high seas fishing ban
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, […]
FERU Welcomes Oriana Smy
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 […]
FERU Welcomes Dr. Annie Innes-Gold
FERU is pleased to welcome postdoctoral research fellow, Dr. Annie Innes-Gold.
Highlights of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit (FERU) in 2025
In 2025, the Fisheries Economics Research Unit (FERU) at the University of British Columbia demonstrated extraordinary breadth and impact, producing influential peer-reviewed research, advancing policy-relevant analysis, mentoring emerging scholars, and redefining the scope of marine economics into climate, plastic pollution, and systemic sustainability. This year’s achievements underscore FERU’s position as a global leader in evidence-based, […]
FERU’s Hongsik Kim Successfully Defends Ph.D. Thesis
We are thrilled to announce that Hongsik Kim has successfully defended his PhD thesis: “Economic Impacts of Ocean Deoxygenation on Marine Fisheries and Ecosystems,” which offers a critical interdisciplinary analysis of one of the most pressing threats to marine environments. The thesis is an interdisciplinary examination of how declining oxygen levels in the ocean affect […]
Assessing the ecological and economic transformation pathways of plastic production system
Assessing the environmental and economic consequences of plastic production, highlighting its contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and global warming.
Ema Fatima is a 2025 Liu Scholar
FERU’s Ema Fatima has been selected by the SPPGA as a 2025 Liu Scholar.
Transparency in aquaculture subsidy reporting urgently needed
FERU’s Dr. Rashid Sumaila calls for a global effort to collect and report aquaculture subsidy data.
Basic income could solve global poverty and stop environmental destruction, study finds
Providing a basic income could boost global gross domestic product (GDP) by $US163 trillion while acting to curb environmental degradation, UBC research has found.