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Indigenous fisheries

Nathan Bennett wins 2018 Early Career Conservationist award

Nathan Bennett wins 2018 Early Career Conservationist award

Bennett is a postdoctoral fellow with the OceanCanada partnership and won this award for advancing the role of social science on conservation policy

Posted in 2018, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with awards, conservation, faculty, Indigenous fisheries, IOF postdoctoral fellows, Nathan Bennett, OceanCanada, Rashid Sumaila

Better policies could net more fish for Indigenous and coastal communities

Better policies could net more fish for Indigenous and coastal communities

Indigenous and coastal communities in Canada are increasingly finding that the ocean and marine resources are off limits.

Posted in 2017, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Aboriginal fisheries, British Columbia, Canada, Indigenous fisheries, IOF postdoctoral fellows, Nathan Bennett, OceanCanada

HERRING PEOPLE: An Arts-Based Initiative

HERRING PEOPLE: An Arts-Based Initiative

This event combined art and science to raise awareness of Pacific herring’s role in BC marine ecosystems, aboriginal communities, and commercial fisheries.

Posted in 2017, IOFNews | Tagged with Aboriginal fisheries, Brian Hunt, faculty, fish, herring, Indigenous fisheries, IOF Research Associates, Mimi Lam, Seminars and events

For Indigenous communities, fish mean much more than food

For Indigenous communities, fish mean much more than food

Coastal indigenous communities eat 15 times more seafood than non-indigenous people in the same country says article from NF-UBC Nereus Program.

Posted in 2017, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Aboriginal fisheries, Indigenous fisheries, IOF Research Associates, marine catches, Nereus Program, Yoshitaka Ota

Seafood consumption 15 times higher among Indigenous than non-Indigenous people

Seafood consumption 15 times higher among Indigenous than non-Indigenous people

In the first global-scale analysis of its kind, the study estimated that coastal Indigenous people consume 74 kilograms of seafood per capita, compared to the global average of 19 kilograms.

Posted in 2016, News Release | Tagged with Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, Indigenous fisheries, IOF Research Associates, marine catches, Nereus Program, Yoshitaka Ota

Climate change could cut First Nations fisheries’ catch in half

Climate change could cut First Nations fisheries’ catch in half

The study finds that coastal First Nations communities could suffer economic losses between $6.7 and $12 million annually by 2050.

Posted in 2016, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Aboriginal fisheries, climate change, faculty, Indigenous fisheries, IOF students, Nereus Program, William Cheung, Yoshitaka Ota

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