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

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seahorses

Hippocampus kuda. Photo: Lindsay Aylesworth/Project Seahorse

New Working Paper: A practical approach to meeting national obligations for sustainable trade under CITES

This pragmatic geographic analysis provides managers in India with a tractable route towards regulating seahorse exports at sustainable levels.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, bottom trawling, CITES, Conservation, India, Project Seahorse, Publications, Research, Sarah Harper, seahorses, Sustainability

New Fisheries Centre Research Report (FCRR)

New Fisheries Centre Research Report (FCRR)

Implementing CITES Appendix II listings for marine fishes: a novel framework and a constructive analysis

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, CITES, Faculty, FCRR, fish, IOF Research Associates, Project Seahorse, Publications, Research, Sarah Foster, seahorses, sharks

New measurements shows seadragons grow slowly, but in a fashion similar to other bony fish

New measurements shows seadragons grow slowly, but in a fashion similar to other bony fish

Despite their odd shape, which makes them resemble a tuft of seaweed, common and leafy seadragons grow in the same fashion as other bony fish, new research has found.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Daniel Pauly, Faculty, IOF students, physiology, Research, Sea Around Us, seadragons, seahorses

CITES makes a difference to the trade in live seahorses

CITES makes a difference to the trade in live seahorses

Project Seahorse reports on the first quantitative analysis of how CITES has influenced the international trade in marine fishes.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with CITES, international trade, IOF Research Associates, Project Seahorse, Research, Sarah Foster, seahorses

Changes in the international trade in live seahorses (Hippocampus spp.) after their listing on CITES Appendix II

Changes in the international trade in live seahorses (Hippocampus spp.) after their listing on CITES Appendix II

This new Fisheries Centre Research Report (FCRR) investigates the international live trade in seahorses.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, CITES, Faculty, FCRR, IOF Research Associates, IUCN, Project Seahorse, Publications, Research, Sarah Foster, seahorses

© Filip Staes, Guylian Seahorses of the World Photography Competition 2016

FCRR: Identifying national conservation status, legislation and priorities for syngnathid fishes globally

This research, conducted by Project Seahorse, provides in-depth assessments on the gaps in global extinction risk assessments with particular focus on Syngnathid fishes (seahorses, pipefishes, pipehorses, and seadragons).

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, Conservation, Faculty, FCRR, international trade, IOF Research Associates, IUCN, Project Seahorse, Publications, Sarah Foster, seahorses, Species extinction

CITES can – and should – improve its remedial process for countries that tolerate unsustainable trade

CITES can – and should – improve its remedial process for countries that tolerate unsustainable trade

“We did this study because we want to see CITES be all it can be.”

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with CITES, Faculty, Illegal fishing, international trade, IOF Research Associates, Project Seahorse, Research, Sarah Foster, seahorses, Sustainability

Dr. Amanda Vincent

UBC seahorse expert wins world’s top animal conservation award

Amanda Vincent becomes first marine conservationist to win Indianapolis Prize

Posted in 2020, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, Awards, bottom trawling, Conservation, fishing gear, fishing practices, IOF announcement, Project Seahorse, seahorses

Hippocampus kuda. Photo: Lindsay Aylesworth/Project Seahorse

FCRR – The catch and trade of seahorses in India pre-ban

This FCRR report documents the first seahorse trade surveys and analyses conducted by Project Seahorse in India, in 1999.

Posted in 2020, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, CITES, Faculty, FCRR, IOF students, Project Seahorse, Publications, Research, seahorses

Amanda Vincent named as finalist for the Indianapolis Prize

Amanda Vincent named as finalist for the Indianapolis Prize

The Indianapolis Prize Finalists represent the world’s most successful professional wildlife conservationists, biologists and scientists, and their heroic work has saved dozens of animal species and their habitats from extinction.

Posted in 2020, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, Awards, Conservation, Faculty, Project Seahorse, seahorses

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