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

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Industrial fishing

WEBINAR: Subsidizing extinction: Subsidies, Sustainable Development Goals and the World Trade Organization

WEBINAR: Subsidizing extinction: Subsidies, Sustainable Development Goals and the World Trade Organization

The video of this webinar is now available. Open this page to view.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release, Webinars | Tagged with Anna Schuhbauer, Daniel Skerritt, Faculty, fishing practices, Industrial fishing, Overfishing, Rashid Sumaila, Research, Small-scale fisheries, Subsidies, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), video, webinar

China and the E.U. aren’t the only ones to blame for harmful fisheries subsidies

China and the E.U. aren’t the only ones to blame for harmful fisheries subsidies

“Don’t think that just because you’re not providing six billion dollars that you’re not impacting, or potentially impacting the sustainability of the fish stock.”

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Daniel Skerritt, Faculty, fish, fish stocks, fishing practices, Industrial fishing, Overfishing, Rashid Sumaila, Research, Subsidies, Sustainability

Industrial fisheries are starving seabirds all around the world

Industrial fisheries are starving seabirds all around the world

Birds that feed on squid, Antarctic krill and small ‘mid-water’ fish such as herrings and sardines are suffering the most

Posted in 2018, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Deng Palomares, Industrial fishing, IOF Research Associates, Research, Sea Around Us, seabirds

Fishing companies lose millions of dollars every year and they don’t know it

Fishing companies lose millions of dollars every year and they don’t know it

Companies could have increased their profits substantially had they allowed fish stocks to rebuild and then fished them sustainably.

Posted in 2018, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Daniel Pauly, Faculty, fisheries management, Industrial fishing, IOF students, Research, Sea Around Us

Fishing fleets travelling further to catch fewer fish

Fishing fleets travelling further to catch fewer fish

Industrial fishing fleets have doubled the distance they travel, but catch only a third of what they did 65 years ago.

Posted in 2018, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Daniel Pauly, Dirk Zeller, Faculty, fish, fisheries management, Industrial fishing, Research, Sea Around Us

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