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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

OceanCanada

Dr. Sumaila and Dr. Auger-Méthé named as Canada Research Chairs

Dr. Sumaila and Dr. Auger-Méthé named as Canada Research Chairs

Dr. U. Rashid Sumaila named CRC Tier I in Interdisciplinary Ocean and Fisheries Economics, and Dr. Marie Auger-Méthé named CRC Tier II in Statistical Ecology.

Posted in 2019, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Awards, Faculty, FERU, Marie Auger-Methe, OceanCanada, Rashid Sumaila, SERG

Rashid Sumaila

Rashid Sumaila wins Murray A. Newman Research Award

Sponsored by Ocean Wise®, the award recognizes significant, field-leading contributions in ocean research.

Posted in 2019, IOF Honours, IOFNews | Tagged with Awards, British Columbia, Faculty, FERU, OceanCanada, Rashid Sumaila

Ensuring individual transferable quotas benefit fisheries and the environment

Ensuring individual transferable quotas benefit fisheries and the environment

Rashid Sumaila proposes various policy changes to help fishers benefit from ITQs while minimizing their negative impacts.

Posted in 2019, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Faculty, FERU, fisheries economics, OceanCanada, Rashid Sumaila, Research

Trust more important than ecology to gain local support for conservation

Trust more important than ecology to gain local support for conservation

Researchers found that building trust with small-scale fishers, through actions like ensuring transparency and conducting outreach activities, is key to gaining local conservation support.

Posted in 2019, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Conservation, IOF Research Associates, Nathan Bennett, OceanCanada, Research

Achieving Paris climate target could net additional billions in fisheries revenue

Achieving Paris climate target could net additional billions in fisheries revenue

Achieving Agreement’s target could increase global fishers’ revenues by $4.6 billion annually.

Posted in 2019, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Climate change, CORU, Faculty, FERU, fisheries economics, IOF students, Nereus Program, OceanCanada, Paris Agreement, Rashid Sumaila, Research, Species distribution, William Cheung

Rashid Sumalia

Rashid Sumaila wins UBC’s President’s Award for Public Education through Media

This award celebrates active sharing of research through the news media

Posted in 2019, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Awards, Faculty, FERU, OceanCanada, Rashid Sumaila

Climate change fuels accumulation of pollutants in Chinook salmon, killer whales

Climate change fuels accumulation of pollutants in Chinook salmon, killer whales

Southern resident killer whales that exist along the Pacific Northeast Coast eat Chinook salmon, and these two predators are impacted by increased pollutant bioaccumulation driven by climate change

Posted in 2018, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with British Columbia, Climate change, Contaminants, Faculty, IOF Research Associates, Juan Jose Alava, Nereus Program, OceanCanada, pollution, Research, salmon, whales, William Cheung

Nathan Bennett

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

Rashid Sumalia

Rashid Sumaila receives Volvo Environment Prize

He was presented with this prestigious award at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden on November 29, 2017.

Posted in 2017, IOFNews | Tagged with Awards, Faculty, FERU, 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

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