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CORU

Op-ed: To Prove its Climate and Biodiversity Ambitions the EU Must Protect the Ocean’s Carbon Engineers

Op-ed: To Prove its Climate and Biodiversity Ambitions the EU Must Protect the Ocean’s Carbon Engineers

An op-ed article by Drs. William Cheung and Rashid Sumaila regarding the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP15, that is currently taking place opened in Montreal.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Biodiversity, carbon footprint, Climate change, conferences, COP15, CORU, Faculty, FERU, Rashid Sumaila, Solving FCB, William Cheung

Kx Spotlight – Collaboration, the key to fighting climate change

Kx Spotlight – Collaboration, the key to fighting climate change

With partnerships spanning across disciplines, sectors and borders, and with academics and non-academics (including Indigenous communities, NGOs, policy makers, businesses and media) collaboration is at the centre of their work.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Biodiversity, biology, Climate change, CORU, Faculty, FERU, fisheries economics, knowledge exchange, ocean economy, Rashid Sumaila, UBC, William Cheung

The DNA of salmon heritage

The DNA of salmon heritage

Two UBC researchers are exploring the problem of dwindling salmon runs from opposite ends of the knowledge continuum—cutting edge genomics, and empirical evidence gathered over millennia by the Indigenous Peoples of the coast.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Aboriginal fisheries, Andrea Reid, British Columbia, Centre for Indigenous Fisheries, CORU, Gideon Mordecai, Indigenous fisheries, IOF Research Associates, public health, salmon, viruses

Global fish stocks can’t rebuild if nothing done to halt climate change and overfishing, new study suggests

Global fish stocks can’t rebuild if nothing done to halt climate change and overfishing, new study suggests

“We are at a turning point. What we need is a coordinated global effort to develop practical and equitable marine conservation measures to support effective biomass rebuilding under climate change,” said Dr. William Cheung

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Climate change, Colette Wabnitz, CORU, Faculty, fish stocks, fisheries management, IOF postdoctoral fellows, IOF Research Associates, Juliano Palacios-Abrantes, William Cheung

BC is facing a steep decline in sockeye salmon

BC is facing a steep decline in sockeye salmon

The sockeye population has been in decline for a century – since 1913, returns in the Skeena River have dropped by 75% – and while there are many factors at play, says Dr. William Cheung, “climate change is definitely one of them.”

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with British Columbia, Christopher Harley, CORU, ecosystems, Faculty, Indigenous fisheries, Indigenous Knowledge, Marine ecosystems, salmon, seafood, shellfish, William Cheung

IOF professors head to United Nations Ocean Conference

IOF professors head to United Nations Ocean Conference

Dr. William Cheung & Dr. Rashid Sumaila are off to Portugal for the United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC), being held June 27 to July 1. Will participate in special side event: Fisheries Management as Climate Action, on June 26.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with CORU, FERU, IPCC, Marine protected areas, NGO, Overfishing, policy, Rashid Sumaila, United Nations (UN), William Cheung

World Oceans Week 2022 – Dr. Nicola Smith

World Oceans Week 2022 – Dr. Nicola Smith

Dr. Nicola Smith is bringing together knowledge creators from diverse groups across Canada to uncover the true scale of greenhouse gas emissions created by Canada’s ocean industries, and ways to best offset these emissions.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Climate change, CORU, Nicola Smith, World Ocean Day

New study reveals extent of labor abuse and  illegal fishing risks among fishing fleets

New study reveals extent of labor abuse and illegal fishing risks among fishing fleets

A new modeling approach combines machine learning and human insights to map the regions and ports most at risk for illicit practices, like forced labor or illegal catch, and identifies opportunities for mitigating such risks.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Colette Wabnitz, CORU, fish stocks, Illegal fishing, IOF Research Associates, IUU, slavery

Europe’s most valuable marine species “reduced to a fraction” of their current population size by 2100

Europe’s most valuable marine species “reduced to a fraction” of their current population size by 2100

Over one quarter of Europe’s 20 most highly-fished marine species will be under extreme pressure by 2100 if nothing is done to simultaneously halt climate change, overfishing, and mercury pollution

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Climate change, CORU, FERU, Ibrahim Issifu, Juan Jose Alava, Overfishing, pollution, Rashid Sumaila, Vicky Lam

Nearly half of countries’ shared fish stocks are on the move due to climate change, prompting dispute concerns

Nearly half of countries’ shared fish stocks are on the move due to climate change, prompting dispute concerns

The study tracked the shifting ranges of 9,132 transboundary fish stocks, which account for 80 per cent of catch taken from the world’s EEZs, starting in 2006 and projecting to the year 2100.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Climate change, Colette Wabnitz, CORU, fish stocks, Gabriel Reygondeau, IOF Research Associates, Juliano Palacios-Abrantes, William Cheung

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