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Email: k.came_at_oceans.ubc.ca
Office: 604-827-4325

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fish stocks

Food quality matters for southern resident killer whales, UBC study states

Food quality matters for southern resident killer whales, UBC study states

If southern resident killer whales ate just low-lipid salmon, they would have to eat around 80,000 more Chinook salmon every year than if they just ate high-lipid salmon.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with biology, Brian Hunt, British Columbia, Faculty, fish, fish stocks, food webs, IOF students, Pacific, salmon, whales

Expecting aquaculture to ‘feed the world’ may be unrealistic, UBC-led study shows

Expecting aquaculture to ‘feed the world’ may be unrealistic, UBC-led study shows

Trends in global aquaculture growth rates reveal that the 101 million tonnes of farmed fish intergovernmental bodies expect countries to produce by 2030 may be unrealistic.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Aquaculture, Daniel Pauly, fish, fish farms, fish stocks, Rashid Sumaila, Sea Around Us

Image: “Aquaculture” by Michael Chu, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

Seafood farming’s growth rate has already peaked, and now it’s in decline

The growth rate of seafood farming worldwide peaked in 1996 according to new UBC research, highlighting the importance of rebuilding wild fish stocks to feed future demand.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Aquaculture, Faculty, fish, fish farms, fish stocks, IOF postdoctoral fellows, Muhammed Oyinlola, Rashid Sumaila, salmon

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

Red pencil urchin at the Papahānaumokuākea MPA. Photo by James Watt, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service – Pacific Region, Wikimedia Commons.

Local stakeholder involvement key to understanding protection level of MPAs

Knowledge provided by local non-governmental organizations, academics, civil servants, journalists, and fishers can be valuable for evaluating the effectiveness of countries’ marine protected areas.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with fish stocks, IOF students, Marine protected areas, ocean economy, Sea Around Us, Small-scale fisheries

Unrelated theories coincide on link between respiratory stress and fish reproduction

Unrelated theories coincide on link between respiratory stress and fish reproduction

A physiological explanation and an evolutionary explanation related to the moment fish become sexually active – and spawn for the first time – have turned out to be two sides of the same coin

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Climate change, Daniel Pauly, fish stocks, GOLT, Sea Around Us

Scientists urge WTO to ban subsidies that promote overfishing

Scientists urge WTO to ban subsidies that promote overfishing

Scientists are calling on the World Trade Organization (WTO) to ban subsidies that can cause overfishing at its meeting next week.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with fish stocks, Overfishing, Rashid Sumaila, Subsidies, World Trade Organization

Clues from decades-old studies shed light on Newfoundland and Labrador’s cod crisis

Clues from decades-old studies shed light on Newfoundland and Labrador’s cod crisis

Efforts to rebuild the stock should be focused all along Newfoundland and Labrador’s coast, not just in the south, says Dr. George Rose.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with cod, fish stocks, Overfishing

Expect to see more squid and less sockeye salmon on “climate changed” menus

Expect to see more squid and less sockeye salmon on “climate changed” menus

Vancouver seafood lovers may see more Humboldt squid but less sockeye salmon on restaurant menus in the near future due to climate change.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Climate change, Faculty, fish stocks, salmon, squid, William Cheung

Researchers deploy a new tool to study Chinook salmon fat content on the Fraser River

Researchers deploy a new tool to study Chinook salmon fat content on the Fraser River

A Chinook with a short migration to Harrison Lake may offer half the calories to a resident killer whale as a similarly sized Chinook headed to the headwaters of the Fraser River.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Brian Hunt, British Columbia, fish, fish stocks, fisheries management, IOF students, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, salmon

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