Congratulations to Drs. Brian Hunt, Murdoch McAllister, Evgeny Pakhomov, and Camilla Speller who received funding.
Tags: Africa, climate change, faculty, gender, Global South, Ibrahim Issifu, Illegal fishing, Ilyass Dahmouni, IOF postdoctoral fellows, IOF Research Associates, IOF students, IUU fishing, Louise Teh, Philippe le Billon, Rashid Sumaila, Research, small-scale fisheries, William Cheung, women, women in fishing
Researchers investigated the gendered impacts of climate change and IUU fishing and offered community-driven approaches to foster resilience, equity, and sustainability in SSFs across climate-sensitive regions.
Salomé Buglass is a marine scientist leading and supporting research on characterizing deep-water habitats, which led to an exciting discovery of a previously unknown deep-water kelp forest in the Galapagos Marine Reserve.
Tags: Brian Hunt, British Columbia, carbon, climate change, coastal ecosystems, coastal environment, Fraser River, freshwater, IOF alumni, IOF students, marine ecosystems, pollutants, wildfire
Wildfires pollute waterways and could affect their ability to sequester carbon, recent University of British Columbia research shows.
Tags: Amanda Vincent, awards, CITES, honours, IOF alumni, Project Seahorse, Publications, Sarah Foster
"A practical approach to meeting national obligations for sustainable trade under CITES” won third place in Conservation Biology’s ‘Rising Star’ award competition.
Tags: Andrew Trites, Anna McLaskey, carbon, Christopher Harley, coastal ecosystems, coastal environment, Daniel Pauly, David Rosen, faculty, FERU, Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT), Illegal fishing, IOF students, killer whales, Marine Mammal Research Unit, marine mammals, MMean Lab, orca, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, plankton, pollutants, Rashid Sumaila, Sea Around Us, sea lions, wildfire, zooplankton
In honour of World Ocean Day, we present OCEAN IDIOMS!
Tags: Aboriginal fisheries, Brian Riddell, British Columbia, Chinook salmon, community, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, fisheries management, Indigenous fisheries, Indigenous Watersheds Initiative, Pacific Ocean, recreational fisheries, salmon, Salmon Dialogues, watersheds, William Cheung
Thirteen public meetings to gather knowledge from local and Indigenous communities in support of salmon rebuilding and recovery in the Pacific Northwest.
Millions of seahorses are illegally trafficked across over 60 countries despite strict global trade regulations, a Project Seahorse and OceansAsia study finds
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.