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High Seas

2023 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement: Daniel Pauly and Rashid Sumaila are winners

2023 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement: Daniel Pauly and Rashid Sumaila are winners

The UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries professors say winning this prize gives them an opportunity to spread an urgent and evidence-based message: all fishing on the high seas should be banned.

Posted in 2023, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Awards, Biodiversity, Conservation, Daniel Pauly, environment, High Seas, Overfishing, Rashid Sumaila

Protecting 30 per cent of the ocean by 2030 would barely impact fisheries

Protecting 30 per cent of the ocean by 2030 would barely impact fisheries

Sea Around Us presents a multi-objective solution that could lead to the protection of 89% of the ocean’s Representative Biodiversity Areas and 89% of threatened species or about 860 species, all while maintaining access to fishing grounds that provide 89% of the global catch.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Biodiversity, Deng Palomares, fisheries management, food security, High Seas, Sea Around Us, Small-scale fisheries, Species distribution, Species extinction

Salmon from freshwater to the ocean: there and back again

Salmon from freshwater to the ocean: there and back again

Video for this seminar is now available! Click to watch

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release, Webinars | Tagged with Aboriginal fisheries, Andrea Reid, Brian Hunt, Centre for Indigenous Fisheries, food webs, Freshwater, High Seas, Indigenous fisheries, IOF alumni, IOF students, salmon, William Cheung

International Gulf of Alaska Expedition

International Gulf of Alaska Expedition

The IOF has two faculty members on board this international salmon research voyage to the Gulf of Alaska

Posted in 2019, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Brian Hunt, British Columbia, Canada, Evgeny Pakhomov, Faculty, Fieldwork, food webs, High Seas, Oceanography, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, plankton, Research, salmon

Half of all high seas fishing grounds would be unprofitable without current subsidies

Half of all high seas fishing grounds would be unprofitable without current subsidies

As much as 54% of the high seas fishing industry would be unprofitable at its current scale without large government subsidies.

Posted in 2018, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Daniel Pauly, Dirk Zeller, Faculty, High Seas, Research, Sea Around Us, Subsidies

UN starts a Conservation Treaty for the High Seas

UN starts a Conservation Treaty for the High Seas

“Restricting fisheries activities to coastal waters is economically and environmentally sensible,” said Dr. Rashid Sumaila in a National Geographic article.

Posted in 2018, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Conservation, Faculty, High Seas, Marine protected areas, Rashid Sumaila

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