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

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Pacific

Feast and famine for juvenile salmon as they navigate BC’s complex coastal waters

Feast and famine for juvenile salmon as they navigate BC’s complex coastal waters

Zooplankton communities are profoundly shaped by BC’s complicated coastlines, creating a mosaic of foraging conditions for the juvenile salmon that depend on them for sustenance.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Brian Hunt, British Columbia, Evgeny Pakhomov, food webs, Hakai Institute, Pacific, plankton, salmon

IOF researchers use salmon scales to track sockeye in the high seas

IOF researchers use salmon scales to track sockeye in the high seas

Knowing where different salmon stocks forage will be essential for identifying the unique environmental threats they will face as oceans become more inhospitable due to climate change and other cumulative impacts.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Animal movement, Brian Hunt, Evgeny Pakhomov, Pacific, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, plankton, Research, salmon, Species distribution

STUDENT PROFILE: Natalie Benoit

STUDENT PROFILE: Natalie Benoit

Benoit’s field research is based in the Strait of Georgia and Johnstone Strait, where she collects samples of environmental DNA – eDNA is microscopic pieces of genetic material left behind when the fish travel through water – from Pacific salmon.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews | Tagged with Fieldwork, Hakai Institute, IOF students, Pacific, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, salmon

STUDENT PROFILE: Ana Pozas

STUDENT PROFILE: Ana Pozas

Focusing her research on the diets of California sea lions, Pozas enjoys working with the ‘dogs of the sea’, proving that the “ocean is not such a scary place and that there’s so much to learn still.”

Posted in 2021, IOFNews | Tagged with David Rosen, IOF students, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Marine mammals, MMean Lab, Pacific, sea lions

Salmon diet database gives researchers a new “window into the lives of salmon”

Salmon diet database gives researchers a new “window into the lives of salmon”

The database fill gaps in scientists’ understanding of the late marine phase of the salmon life cycle

Posted in 2020, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Brian Hunt, Evgeny Pakhomov, Faculty, food webs, IOF students, Pacific, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, Research, salmon, Species distribution

Impact of climate change on tropical fisheries would create ripples across the world

Impact of climate change on tropical fisheries would create ripples across the world

Tropical oceans and fisheries are threatened by climate change, generating impacts that will affect the sustainable development of both local economies and communities, and regions outside the tropics.

Posted in 2020, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Climate change, CORU, fish, fish stocks, fisheries economics, food security, Marine catches, Nereus Program, Pacific, Rashid Sumaila, Vicky Lam, William Cheung

Climate change-threatened Marshall Islands under-reporting fisheries stats

Climate change-threatened Marshall Islands under-reporting fisheries stats

A new study by Sea Around Us found that total marine fisheries catches were 27% higher over the last 60 years than the data officially reported by the FAO on behalf of the Marshall Islands

Posted in 2020, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Dirk Zeller, Faculty, fisheries management, Marine catches, Pacific, Research, Sea Around Us, Small-scale fisheries

New viruses discovered in endangered wild Pacific salmon populations

New viruses discovered in endangered wild Pacific salmon populations

All three are related to viruses that cause serious disease in other species.

Posted in 2019, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with British Columbia, Curtis Suttle, Faculty, fish, fish farms, IOF postdoctoral fellows, Pacific, Research, salmon, viruses

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