Tags: biodiversity, climate change, food security, France, ocean governance, Rashid Sumaila, small-scale fisheries, Solving FCB, UN Ocean Conference, United Nations (UN), William Cheung
Solving FCB will host two side events - one for the public and one for UNOC participants - in Nice, France on June 11 & 12, 2025
Tags: Amanda Vincent, Illegal fishing, international trade, Project Seahorse, Sarah Foster, seahorses
Millions of seahorses are illegally trafficked across over 60 countries despite strict global trade regulations, a Project Seahorse and OceansAsia study finds
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The application process for our 2nd cohort of Visiting Fellows open. Deadline extended to June 30, 2025!!!
Rebranded IOF softball team - Red Sockeyes - loses first game. Come cheer on the Red Sockeyes on Thursday, May 29 when they take on Microbiology at 5:30PM at Thunderbird Stadium!
Tags: climate change, Daniel Pauly, fish, Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT), Johannes Müller, physiology, Publications, Sea Around Us
Data from 33 fish species further supports the argument that small differences between fish’s oxygen consumption increase and gill surface area growth do not invalidate the principles of the Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT).
Tags: Alaska, animal movement, Arctic, faculty, habitats, Indigenous fisheries, Indigenous Knowledge, IOF students, Marie Auger-Methe, movement ecology, Research, seals
Indigenous Knowledge can provide a holistic understanding of species’ habitat use given that it contains observations of multiple species across seasons and includes animals' complex relationships with other species and habitats.
Tags: Carl Walters, Daniel Pauly, honours, Publications, Rashid Sumaila, Villy Christensen, William Cheung
UBC was ranked 21 in the Global Overall Academic Institutional Rankings, and 25 for the past five years. In the specialties area, it ranked 1 for ecosystem, fishing, fish physiology, and marine ecosystems.
Tags: aquaculture, faculty, FERU, fish oil, fishmeal, global policy, industrial production, IOF students, mariculture, Rashid Sumaila, Research, wild caught fish
UBC study has revealed the global distribution of fishmeal and fish oil factories for the first time, shedding light on a critical area of the aquaculture supply chain
Tags: circular solutions, deep sea mining, Dona Bertarelli Philanthropy, fisheries management, insurance, IOF Research Associates, Lubna Alam, metals, Pacific Ocean, pollution, Publications, Rashid Sumaila, recycling, Small Island Developing States (SIDS), temperatures, tourism, tuna, tuna fisheries
The study advocates for a shift toward circular economy strategies, such as enhanced recycling and urban mining, which offer sustainable alternatives to deep-sea mining.
Tags: Daniel Pauly, Deng Palomares, faculty, fisheries management, IOF Research Associates, nutrition, Publications, Sea Around Us
The 4 billion tonnes of marine organisms that global fisheries extracted from the ocean between 1960 and 2018 resulted in the depletion of over 560 million tonnes of essential nutrients vital to ecosystem health.