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Researchers call for action to stop exploitation of Antarctic waters

Researchers call for action to stop exploitation of Antarctic waters

The critically important Southern Ocean is not being properly protected by its stewards, a distinguished group of scientists from around the globe have noted.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Antarctic, Antarctica, faculty, fisheries management, humpback whales, IOF Research Associates, krill, Louise Teh, ocean governance, overfishing, Rashid Sumaila, Research, whales

As the Antarctic warms, krill move south to the colder ice shelves

As the Antarctic warms, krill move south to the colder ice shelves

“Krill is perhaps the largest fishing resource in the world’s oceans.”

Posted in 2019, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Antarctic, Evgeny Pakhomov, faculty, krill, oceanography, Research, species distribution

Sailing the Southern Ocean – for science

Sailing the Southern Ocean – for science

IOF postdoctoral fellows and researchers, Boris Espinasse, Natasha Henschke, and Marina Espinasse focused on the cycling and diversity-function of zooplankton and metazoans

Posted in 2018, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Antarctic, biodiversity, Boris Espinasse, Brian Hunt, Evgeny Pakhomov, faculty, fieldwork, IOF postdoctoral fellows, jellyfish, Marina Espinasse, Natasha Henschke, plankton

Antarctica’s biodiversity not doing as well as hoped

Antarctica’s biodiversity not doing as well as hoped

Experts, including IOF’s Deng Palomares, debunked the popular view that Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are in a better environmental shape than the rest of the world.

Posted in 2017, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Antarctic, biodiversity, Deng Palomares, IOF Research Associates, Sea Around Us

Fish moving poleward at rate of 26 kilometres per decade

Fish moving poleward at rate of 26 kilometres per decade

Large numbers of fish will disappear from the tropics by 2050, finds a new UBC study that examined the impact of climate change on fish stocks.

Posted in 2014, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Antarctic, Arctic, climate change, IOF postdoctoral fellows, Nereus Program, ocean ecology, William Cheung

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