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Microplastics may be accumulating at a high rate in endangered Galápagos penguins’ food web

Microplastics may be accumulating at a high rate in endangered Galápagos penguins’ food web

The model predictions showed a rapid increase in microplastic accumulation and contamination across the penguins’ prey organisms resulting in Galápagos penguin displaying the highest level of microplastics per biomass, followed by barracuda, anchovy, sardine, herring, and salema and predatory zooplankton.

Posted in 2024, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Ecuador, Galápagos, IOF alumni, IOF Research Associates, IOF students, Juan Jose Alava, microplastics, OPRU, penguins, plastic, pollution

The Sea Around Us project manager, Dr. Maria ‘Deng’ Palomares, with Belizean fishers. Photo by the Belize Fisheries Project.

Belizean fishers want changes in policy and practice to revert declining catch trends

During a series of workshops and meetings held in June and December 2023, Belizean fishers endorsed the findings of the stock assessments carried out by the Sea Around Us, which show that commercially important species such as conch and lobster are overfished

Posted in 2024, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Belize, Deng Palomares, fishers, IOF Research Associates, Sea Around Us

Toxic chemicals found in oil spills and wildfire smoke detected in killer whales

Toxic chemicals found in oil spills and wildfire smoke detected in killer whales

Toxic chemicals produced from oil emissions and wildfire smoke have been found in muscle and liver samples from Southern Resident killer whales and Bigg’s killer whales.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with biology, British Columbia, contaminants, faculty, IOF Research Associates, Juan Jose Alava, killer whales, OPRU, orca, Pacific Ocean, pollution, whales

PICES Symposium brought together science from all around the world

PICES Symposium brought together science from all around the world

Several IOF members presented at the symposium, with Research Associate Dr. Anna McLaskey, winning the best oral presentation in the Biological Oceanography Committee section.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews | Tagged with Anna McLaskey, Brian Hunt, CORU, IOF postdoctoral fellows, IOF Research Associates, Juan Jose Alava, Loïc Jacquemot, Marine Zooplankton and Micronekton Laboratory, MMRU, OPRU, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, PICES, Szymon Surma

Sea Around Us Project Manager joins Sustainability, Predictability and Resilience of Marine Ecosystems Program Committee

Sea Around Us Project Manager joins Sustainability, Predictability and Resilience of Marine Ecosystems Program Committee

Dr. Maria ‘Deng’ Palomares, has been invited to become a member of the international steering committee for the “Sustainability, Predictability and Resilience of Marine Ecosystems” (SUPREME) program, which is led by the United States of America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and endorsed by the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (UNDOS).

Posted in 2023, IOF Honours, IOFNews, Research | Tagged with Deng Palomares, honours, IOF Research Associates, NOAA, Sea Around Us, United Nations (UN), United States

Climate change will have an adverse impact on trophic amplification in marine food webs

Climate change will have an adverse impact on trophic amplification in marine food webs

Climate-driven changes in ocean environmental conditions — ocean warming, deoxygenation and acidification — are projected to affect the physiological functions of marine organisms, their geographic distributions, biological life cycles and total biomass.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with biology, biomass, climate change, CORU, ecosystems, faculty, food security, food webs, Gabriel Reygondeau, IOF Research Associates, IOF students, marine ecosystems, ocean economy, plankton, species distribution, trophic amplification, William Cheung, zooplankton

New FCRR: Understanding the fishers to change the fishery in the bottom trawl industry in India

New FCRR: Understanding the fishers to change the fishery in the bottom trawl industry in India

The report unravels the drivers and motivations that entice fishers and the fishery to start, engage in, and stop bottom trawling in India. Understanding the nuances within communities rather than viewing them as one entity is paramount for designing equitable policies. Moreover, the study highlights a pressing reality: fishers do not always want to fish and are sometimes forced to remain in the bottom trawl industry. Recognizing and addressing these insights are paramount in effectively constraining bottom trawling.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, bottom trawling, CITES, faculty, FCRR, India, IOF Research Associates, IOF students, Marine protected areas, Project Seahorse, Publications, Sarah Foster, seahorses

Market-based solution makes the case for blue carbon

Market-based solution makes the case for blue carbon

Over 120 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent could be sequestered every year by 2050 by applying a market-based solution (MBS) to global fisheries that would allow fishers to decide whether – at certain times – it is more profitable to go fish or to remain at port.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Blue economy, carbon footprint, carbon trading, climate change, Deng Palomares, faculty, FERU, fish catch, fisheries economics, fisheries management, global policy, IOF Research Associates, ocean economy, Rashid Sumaila, Sea Around Us

New FCRR: Implementation of CITES Appendix II listing for seahorses in the context of export bans and suspensions

New FCRR: Implementation of CITES Appendix II listing for seahorses in the context of export bans and suspensions

Despite measures taken by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), most dried seahorse exports appear to have gone underground, and smuggling is now the norm. The report explores the many reasons driving this illegal trade and then identifies ways forward.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with bottom trawling, CITES, FCRR, international trade, IOF Research Associates, Marine protected areas, Project Seahorse, Publications, Sarah Foster, seahorses

World Oceans Day: ‘In one word, what does the ocean mean to you?’

World Oceans Day: ‘In one word, what does the ocean mean to you?’

Discover what the ocean means to us here at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries!

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with faculty, IOF postdoctoral fellows, IOF Research Associates, IOF students, ocean, science, United Nations (UN), World Ocean Day

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