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Email: k.came_at_oceans.ubc.ca
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Research

Blue herons identified as a significant juvenile salmon predator

Blue herons identified as a significant juvenile salmon predator

Looking for predators that ate salmon, an Indigenous biologist suggested looking at heron. Discarded tags proved Pacific great blue herons could be scooping up as many as 3-6% of all juvenile salmon.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with Andrew Trites, birds, British Columbia, Faculty, herons, Indigenous fisheries, IOF students, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Research, salmon, seabirds

Orca Quest 2020: In Search of Killer Whales

Orca Quest 2020: In Search of Killer Whales

In August 2020, Marine Mammal Research Unit (MMRU) researchers set sail to determine whether there are enough chinook salmon to support southern resident killer whales in the Salish Sea.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Andrew Trites, Animal movement, British Columbia, Faculty, IOF postdoctoral fellows, IOF students, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Marine mammals, Pacific, Research, Sarah Fortune, whales

Research into bowhead whales finds unique foraging behaviour

Research into bowhead whales finds unique foraging behaviour

Understanding the needs of bowheads is a crucial first step taken to learn how they will respond to climate change.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Andrew Trites, Arctic, Faculty, IOF postdoctoral fellows, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Marine mammals, Research, Sarah Fortune, whales

Harbour seals respond differently to pulses of out-migrating coho and Chinook salmon smolts

Harbour seals respond differently to pulses of out-migrating coho and Chinook salmon smolts

UBC researchers set out to determine who was eating juvenile salmon, and when and where it was occurring by capturing and tracking harbour seals that carried cell-phone-like devices that recorded everything and everywhere the seals went.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Marine Mammal Research Unit, Research, salmon, seals

PROFILE: Ocean Leaders step outside the lab to connect with communities and solve ocean problems

PROFILE: Ocean Leaders step outside the lab to connect with communities and solve ocean problems

Ocean Leaders teaches students from across disciplines in the natural and social sciences how to communicate marine research to a broad audience

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Aboriginal fisheries, China, Fieldwork, fishmeal, Indigenous fisheries, IOF students, Ocean Leaders, Research, science communications, Simon Donner, Tsleil-Waututh Nation

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

Understanding why fish grow the way they do and getting serious about it

Understanding why fish grow the way they do and getting serious about it

Daniel Pauly argues that scientists need to avoid attaching human attributes to fish and start looking at their unique biology and constraints through a different lens.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Climate change, Daniel Pauly, Faculty, fish, physiology, Research, Sea Around Us

Fisheries managers should not abuse Maximum Sustainable Yield

Fisheries managers should not abuse Maximum Sustainable Yield

The Sea Around Us’ Daniel Pauly, and Rainer Froese, senior scientist at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, talk about their recent paper “MSY needs no epitaph—but it was abused”.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Daniel Pauly, fish stocks, fisheries management, MSY, Overfishing, Research, Sea Around Us, Sustainability

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

What’s Killing Killer Whales?

What’s Killing Killer Whales?

Despite there being no singular common cause of death, the study found a common theme: Human-caused deaths occurred in every age class — from juveniles to subadults and adults.

Posted in 2020, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with British Columbia, Canada, Cetaceans, Conservation, Faculty, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Research, Stephen Raverty, whales, zoology

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