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Katherine Came
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Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Email: k.came_at_oceans.ubc.ca
Office: 604-827-4325

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UBC Media Relations
Email: alex.walls_at_ubc.ca
Office: 604-822-4636

Marine protected areas

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

IOF professors head to United Nations Ocean Conference

IOF professors head to United Nations Ocean Conference

Dr. William Cheung & Dr. Rashid Sumaila are off to Portugal for the United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC), being held June 27 to July 1. Will participate in special side event: Fisheries Management as Climate Action, on June 26.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with CORU, FERU, IPCC, Marine protected areas, NGO, Overfishing, policy, Rashid Sumaila, United Nations (UN), William Cheung

‘Sticky questions’ raised by study on coral reefs

‘Sticky questions’ raised by study on coral reefs

Study found coral in more polluted and high traffic water handled extreme heat events better than a more remote, untouched reef.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Climate change, Conservation, Coral, Faculty, IOF students, Marine protected areas, Pacific, Simon Donner

World Ocean Day – Dr. Gabriel Reygondeau

World Ocean Day – Dr. Gabriel Reygondeau

Asking countries to carry an equal share of the load may be tidy from a legislative perspective, but it doesn’t do much for biodiversity

Posted in World Ocean Day 2021 | Tagged with Biodiversity, Conservation, CORU, fisheries economics, Gabriel Reygondeau, international trade, Marine protected areas, Overfishing, World Ocean Day

2021 World Ocean Day – Dr. Jacqueline Maud

2021 World Ocean Day – Dr. Jacqueline Maud

Marine protected areas aim to preserve ecosystem health in the oceans from the top down; Maud’s research looks at the ecosystem more from the bottom-up, and thinks that MPAs can “be tricky.”

Posted in World Ocean Day 2021 | Tagged with food webs, Hakai Coastal Initiative, IOF postdoctoral fellows, Jacqueline Maud, Marine protected areas, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, plankton, Women in Science, World Ocean Day, zooplankton

2021 World Ocean Day – Dr. Sarah Foster

2021 World Ocean Day – Dr. Sarah Foster

One way to help seahorses thrive is to secure their habitat using marine protected areas (MPA). However, MPAs aren’t always as protected as the name implies.

Posted in Research, World Ocean Day 2021 | Tagged with bottom trawling, IOF Research Associates, Marine protected areas, Project Seahorse, Sarah Foster, Sustainability, World Ocean Day

2021 World Ocean Day – Dr. Louise Teh

2021 World Ocean Day – Dr. Louise Teh

Thirty per cent of the world’s oceans cannot be closed without political will and without consideration of the economic toll doing so would take on many coastal communities.

Posted in World Ocean Day 2021 | Tagged with Blue economy, FERU, fisheries economics, human dimensions, IOF Research Associates, Louise Teh, Marine protected areas, World Ocean Day

2021 World Ocean Week – June 7-11

2021 World Ocean Week – June 7-11

We asked ocean researchers from the IOF to envision how the target of protecting at least 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030 might be achieved.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release, Research, World Ocean Day 2021 | Tagged with Blue economy, bottom trawling, Conservation, CORU, FERU, fisheries economics, food webs, Gabriel Reygondeau, Hakai Coastal Initiative, human dimensions, international trade, IOF postdoctoral fellows, IOF Research Associates, Jacqueline Maud, Louise Teh, Marine protected areas, Overfishing, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, plankton, Project Seahorse, Sarah Foster, Sustainability, Vicky Lam, Women in Science, World Ocean Day, zooplankton

COVID-19 and BREXIT can help with the recovery of UK fish stocks

COVID-19 and BREXIT can help with the recovery of UK fish stocks

The researchers propose fishing targets be set to levels in which fishers leave more fish in the water than the minimum required to generate maximum sustainable yields

Posted in 2020, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Daniel Pauly, Faculty, fish stocks, fisheries management, Marine protected areas, Sea Around Us, UK

Marine protected areas can improve both human well-being and biodiversity conservation, new study finds

Marine protected areas can improve both human well-being and biodiversity conservation, new study finds

Small MPAs had more positive well-being outcomes, while large MPAs are shown to be more ecologically effective.

Posted in 2019, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Biodiversity, Faculty, FERU, IOF alumni, IOF Research Associates, Marine protected areas, Nathan Bennett, OceanCanada, Rashid Sumaila

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