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.
Protecting 30 per cent of the ocean by 2030 would barely impact fisheries
Sea Around Us presents a multi-objective solution that could lead to the protection of 89% of the ocean’s Representative Biodiversity Areas and 89% of threatened species or about 860 species, all while maintaining access to fishing grounds that provide 89% of the global catch.
WEBINAR: Subsidizing extinction: Subsidies, Sustainable Development Goals and the World Trade Organization
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As fishing effort grows, catches decline in the Mozambique Channel region
Researchers found that effective small-scale fishing effort in the entire Mozambique Channel region grew slowly but steadily from around 386,000 kWdays in 1950 to around 23 million kWdays by 2016, with Mozambique and Madagascar dominating the upward trend.
Small-scale fisheries can back food security efforts in Arabian sea countries
Countries surrounding the Arabian Sea should empower well-managed artisanal and subsistence fisheries to back food security efforts, a new Sea Around Us study suggests.
New World Wildlife Fund reports call for better policy to save fish from climate change
IOF’s Drs. Juan Jose Alava and William Cheung contributed to two WWF reports.
How small-scale fishers are struggling amid COVID-19 crisis
Researchers explored the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on small-scale fisheries in Canada and worldwide, and provided recommendations on how to support them.
Fisherwomen contribute tonnes of fish, billions of dollars to global fisheries
UBC study assembled and presented the first quantitative estimates of catch by women and the associated value of what is brought to shore, on a global scale.
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
Carbon dioxide emissions from global fisheries larger than previously thought
Emissions from the fuel burnt by fishing boats are 30% higher than previously reported