Super Salmon Science
Hakai Institute’s Juvenile Salmon Program investigates factors affecting juvenile salmon across the Discovery Islands and Johnstone Strait.
Fishing companies lose millions of dollars every year and they don’t know it
Companies could have increased their profits substantially had they allowed fish stocks to rebuild and then fished them sustainably.
Women play critical role in fisheries governance, studies suggest
IOF researchers investigated women’s roles in fisheries governance in British Columbia and in the Philippines.
Adams River Sockeye Trip
Every four years this river sees a large run of sockeye salmon and a group of IOF participants were lucky enough to witness this event
Ahead of the G7 Summit, UBC researchers played key role in shaping marine policies
UBC researchers applied their expertise to tackle key ocean-based challenges and help shape marine policies.
Cigarettes account for half of waste recovered on Vancouver and Victoria shorelines
UBC researchers analysed data from 1,226 voluntary cleanups organized by the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup (GCSC).
IOF Student Society Travel Grant (Summer 2018) winners
Vanessa Fladmark and Melanie Ang are the recipients of the IOF Student Society Travel Grant 2018 – Summer.
IOF students visit fish farm
Students visited the Greig Salmon Farm and the BC Centre for Aquatic Health Sciences to better understand salmon farming.
As penguins dive, their location data takes flight
Data sent from penguins to space and back to UBC could help researchers determine why the species’ breeding population fluctuates so dramatically.
437 million tonnes of fish, $560 billion wasted due to destructive fishing operations
Research suggests that bottom trawling generates the most waste of any fishing method because the unwanted catch is dumped back into the ocean.