New study reinforces link between gill size and oxygen uptake in fish
Data from 33 fish species further supports the argument that small differences between fish’s oxygen consumption increase and gill surface area growth do not invalidate the principles of the Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT).
ScholarGPS publishes its list of Highly Ranked Scholars for 2024
UBC was ranked 21 in the Global Overall Academic Institutional Rankings, and 25 for the past five years. In the specialties area, it ranked 1 for ecosystem, fishing, fish physiology, and marine ecosystems.
Deep-sea mining risks leads study to urge shift to circular solutions
The study advocates for a shift toward circular economy strategies, such as enhanced recycling and urban mining, which offer sustainable alternatives to deep-sea mining.
Fisheries disrupt balance of marine nutrients in countries’ Exclusive Economic Zones
The 4 billion tonnes of marine organisms that global fisheries extracted from the ocean between 1960 and 2018 resulted in the depletion of over 560 million tonnes of essential nutrients vital to ecosystem health.
Cooperating to tackle plastic pollution
Shifting the focus of intervention to the supply-side, by evaluating the potential environmental and economic outcomes of a voluntary levy on the top 100 plastic producers.
Sumaila-Volvo Graduate Prize in Environmental Sustainability winners announced
Congratulations to Verena Rossa-Roccor (IRES) and Aleah Wong (IOF), winners of the 2025 Sumaila-Volvo Graduate Prize in Environmental Sustainability.
New FCRR: Marine and Freshwater Miscellanea V
This report presents a valuable collection of studies that contribute to both foundational research and impactful discussion in fisheries science and marine ecology.
Reconstruction of Freshwater Fisheries Catches: Canada, Minnesota (USA), and ASEAN Countries
New Fisheries Centre Research Report just released, from Sea Around Us.
Ecosystem Modelling with EwE – new textbook
This book will be used for future FISH 501 courses, and for the IOF ecosystem modelling micro certificate course.
New FCRR: Gill size and temperature as governing factors in fish growth: A generalization of von Bertalanffy’s growth formula (2nd edition)
Want to read Dr. Daniel Pauly’s PhD thesis? This FCRR contains the 1979 dissertation, but with minor typographical errors corrected and tables and figures reorganized for clarity.