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Email: k.came_at_oceans.ubc.ca
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Sea Around Us

Paper Park Index helps identify 55 unprotected marine protected areas

Paper Park Index helps identify 55 unprotected marine protected areas

Most of the ‘paper parks’ – or MPAs that fall short of safeguarding marine biodiversity – are located in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Conservation, Daniel Pauly, fishing practices, Marine protected areas, Sea Around Us

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Dr. Daniel Pauly and Dr. Rashid Sumaila talk about race, career, and research.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Daniel Pauly, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Rashid Sumaila, Sea Around Us

Most coral reef sharks and rays may be at risk of extinction

Most coral reef sharks and rays may be at risk of extinction

Nearly two-thirds of coral reef shark and ray species worldwide are threatened with extinction, a new study in Nature Communications, co-authored by the Sea Around Us’ Maria ‘Deng’ Palomares shows.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Coral, Deng Palomares, Sea Around Us, sharks, Species extinction

Sea Around Us co-organizes IMPAC5 side event

Sea Around Us co-organizes IMPAC5 side event

The Sea Around Us is co-organizer of the workshop “Marine Biodiversity Knowledges & Governance” taking place on February 2, 2023.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Andrea Reid, Daniel Pauly, IMPAC5, IOF alumni, Sea Around Us, Seminars and events

New FCRR: Marine and Freshwater Miscellanea IV

New FCRR: Marine and Freshwater Miscellanea IV

Like its predecessors, this Fisheries Centre Research Report is a grab-bag of contributions from Dr. Daniel Pauly and associates.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Daniel Pauly, FCRR, Publications, Sea Around Us, sharks, tuna

Expecting aquaculture to ‘feed the world’ may be unrealistic, UBC-led study shows

Expecting aquaculture to ‘feed the world’ may be unrealistic, UBC-led study shows

Trends in global aquaculture growth rates reveal that the 101 million tonnes of farmed fish intergovernmental bodies expect countries to produce by 2030 may be unrealistic.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Aquaculture, Daniel Pauly, fish, fish farms, fish stocks, Rashid Sumaila, Sea Around Us

IOF delegation going to COP27

IOF delegation going to COP27

PhD candidate Veronica Relano and Dr. Simon Donner, professor in IOF, IRES and Geography, are among the 10 members of UBC’s delegation travelling to Egypt to attend the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP27)

Posted in 2022, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with IOF students, Sea Around Us, Simon Donner

“Heading for failure” UN Sustainable development goal for world oceans

“Heading for failure” UN Sustainable development goal for world oceans

New research examined the progress of the UN’s “Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14: Life Below Water”, and more than 70% of countries have not achieved a single target so far.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Deng Palomares, IOF Research Associates, Ocean ecology, Sea Around Us, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

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

Unrelated theories coincide on link between respiratory stress and fish reproduction

Unrelated theories coincide on link between respiratory stress and fish reproduction

A physiological explanation and an evolutionary explanation related to the moment fish become sexually active – and spawn for the first time – have turned out to be two sides of the same coin

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Climate change, Daniel Pauly, fish stocks, GOLT, Sea Around Us

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