Tags: Atlantic, cod, Daniel Pauly, Faculty, fish stocks, fisheries management, Research, Sea Around Us
The assessment model demonstrated that if Canadian authorities had allowed for the rebuilding of the stock of northern Atlantic cod off Newfoundland and Labrador in the 1980s, annual catches of about 200,000 tonnes could have been sustained.
Tags: Animal movement, Faculty, IOF students, Marie Auger-Methe, observation, polar bears, Research, satellite data, seals, SERG, tagging, whales
“Ecology has a lot of difficult data to handle, and a big part of my research is developing new statistical methods to tackle these problems,” says Dr. Marie Auger-Méthé.
Tags: Awards, Biodiversity, Ecopath, Ecopath with Ecosim (EWE), Faculty, Global Ocean Modelling, Modelling, Villy Christensen
Fellows are members who have made outstanding or meritorious contributions to the diversity of fields that are included in the American Fisheries Society.
Tags: Daniel Pauly, Dirk Zeller, East Africa, fisheries management, Marine catches, Research, Sea Around Us, Small-scale fisheries
Researchers found that effective small-scale fishing effort in the entire Mozambique Channel region grew slowly but steadily from around 386,000 kWdays in 1950 to around 23 million kWdays by 2016, with Mozambique and Madagascar dominating the upward trend.
“We brought an infrared camera mostly to see if we could find walruses, seals, and polar bears on the ice, but when we looked at the infrared footage, we saw these narwhals swimming."
Tags: Climate change, Conservation, Coral, Faculty, IOF students, Marine protected areas, Pacific, Research, Simon Donner
Study found coral in more polluted and high traffic water handled extreme heat events better than a more remote, untouched reef.
Tags: David Rosen, Faculty, Marine mammals, MMean Lab, pinnipeds, Research, sea lions, Vancouver, walrus
Knowledge about resting metabolic rates or energy expenditures can lead to big, meaningful changes for the conservation of wild animals.
Tags: Biodiversity, Conservation, IOF students, Marie Auger-Methe, seabirds, SERG, statistical ecology, Sustainability
The Arctic tern—which has the world record for the longest annual migration—uses just a few select routes, a key finding that could help efforts to conserve the species
More than 50 years of studying Steller sea lion behaviour has yielded one of the most complete life history descriptions for any species of marine mammal.