Industrial fleets from top fishing countries operating in the Indian Ocean and targeting export-market species such as tuna and squid are likely to disable monitoring systems to fish more than allowed and evade authorities
Tags: awards, biodiversity, conservation, Daniel Pauly, fisheries management, fisheries science, Sea Around Us, Spain
During the 2024 Meeting of the Seas held in Tenerife, Spain, Dr. Daniel Pauly, was granted the Sartún Award, in recognition of his +40-year career working for the protection of the global ocean.
Tags: Beaufort Sea Shelf and Slope, beluga whales, Canadian Arctic, cod, Colette Wabnitz, CORU, Indigenous culture, Indigenous fisheries, Indigenous history, IOF students, marine mammals, Research, Solving FCB, Tarium Niryutait Marine Protected Area, whales, William Cheung
Ecosystems can be impacted and changed by a lot of different things, including human activities, stormwater runoff, contaminants, invasive species, and climate change
Dr. Kii’iljuus Barbara Wilson, an Adjunct faculty member with IOF and CIF received the Honorary Doctorate from Simon Fraser University.
Tags: awards, British Columbia, Canada, Canada Research Chair, conservation, CORU, David Rosen, Discovery Grants, fish, funding, heatwaves, Marie Auger-Methe, marine mammals, MMean Lab, NSERC, SERG, Solving FCB, statistical ecology, William Cheung
Dr. Marie Auger-Méthé's Canada Research Chair in Statistical Ecology (Tier II) was renewed, and she, along with Dr. William Cheung and Dr. David Rosen received NSERC Discovery Grant funding.
Tags: biodiversity, Blue economy, environment, FERU, fisheries economics, Louise Teh, low-income fishers, ocean economy, Rashid Sumaila, Solving FCB
Providing a basic income could boost global gross domestic product (GDP) by $US163 trillion while acting to curb environmental degradation, UBC research has found.
This book will be used for future FISH 501 courses, and for the IOF ecosystem modelling micro certificate course.
Want to read Dr. Daniel Pauly's PhD thesis? This FCRR contains the 1979 dissertation, but with minor typographical errors corrected and tables and figures reorganized for clarity.
Action Canada selects emerging leaders from across Canada to become Fellows. They represent all sectors, including business, NGOs, science, government and academia. What they share in common is a commitment to Canada and a demonstrated engagement with public policy.
Tags: awards, biodiversity, Brian Hunt, British Columbia, eDNA, environmental DNA, faculty, IOF students, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, Research, zooplankton, Zooscan
The award will fund a project to provide high resolution zooplankton biodiversity data by integrating eDNA, and the Zooscan imaging system, to establish a biodiversity benchmark for the wider BC coast.