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Katherine Came
Communications Manager
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Email: k.came_at_oceans.ubc.ca
Office: 604-827-4325

Alex Walls
Media Relations Specialist
UBC Media Relations
Email: alex.walls_at_ubc.ca
Office: 604-822-4636

Sustainability

WEBINAR: Subsidizing extinction: Subsidies, Sustainable Development Goals and the World Trade Organization

WEBINAR: Subsidizing extinction: Subsidies, Sustainable Development Goals and the World Trade Organization

The video of this webinar is now available. Open this page to view.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release, Webinars | Tagged with Anna Schuhbauer, Daniel Skerritt, Faculty, fishing practices, Industrial fishing, Overfishing, Rashid Sumaila, Research, Small-scale fisheries, Subsidies, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), webinar

Towards sustainable, resilient and just food systems and the role of aquatic foods

Towards sustainable, resilient and just food systems and the role of aquatic foods

Video now available for viewing!

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release, Webinars | Tagged with Blue Food Assessment, Colette Wabnitz, Deng Palomares, food security, food webs, Rashid Sumaila, Seminars and events, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Surprising insights into the migration pattern of world’s farthest-migrating species

Surprising insights into the migration pattern of world’s farthest-migrating species

The Arctic tern—which has the world record for the longest annual migration—uses just a few select routes, a key finding that could help efforts to conserve the species

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Biodiversity, Conservation, IOF students, Marie Auger-Methe, seabirds, SERG, statistical ecology, Sustainability

2021 World Ocean Day – Dr. Sarah Foster

2021 World Ocean Day – Dr. Sarah Foster

One way to help seahorses thrive is to secure their habitat using marine protected areas (MPA). However, MPAs aren’t always as protected as the name implies.

Posted in World Ocean Day 2021 | Tagged with bottom trawling, IOF Research Associates, Marine protected areas, Project Seahorse, Research, Sarah Foster, Sustainability, World Ocean Day

Study identifies major barriers to financing a sustainable ocean economy

Study identifies major barriers to financing a sustainable ocean economy

A Paris Agreement type effort may be required to financing a sustainable global ocean economy that benefits society and businesses in both developing and developed countries.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Blue economy, Faculty, finance, IOF Research Associates, Louise Teh, ocean economy, Ocean governance, Rashid Sumaila, Research, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), World Ocean Day

2021 World Ocean Week – June 7-11

2021 World Ocean Week – June 7-11

We asked ocean researchers from the IOF to envision how the target of protecting at least 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030 might be achieved.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release, World Ocean Day 2021 | Tagged with Blue economy, bottom trawling, Conservation, CORU, FERU, fisheries economics, food webs, Gabriel Reygondeau, Hakai Coastal Initiative, human dimensions, international trade, IOF postdoctoral fellows, IOF Research Associates, Jacqueline Maud, Louise Teh, Marine protected areas, Overfishing, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, plankton, Project Seahorse, Research, Sarah Foster, Sustainability, Vicky Lam, Women in Science, World Ocean Day, zooplankton

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

China and the E.U. aren’t the only ones to blame for harmful fisheries subsidies

China and the E.U. aren’t the only ones to blame for harmful fisheries subsidies

“Don’t think that just because you’re not providing six billion dollars that you’re not impacting, or potentially impacting the sustainability of the fish stock.”

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Daniel Skerritt, Faculty, fish, fish stocks, fishing practices, Industrial fishing, Overfishing, Rashid Sumaila, Research, Subsidies, Sustainability

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

China’s policy efforts to limit bottom trawling are not working

China’s policy efforts to limit bottom trawling are not working

By tracking the changes in China’s bottom trawl fishing policies from the 1950s to today and found that these policies are not working

Posted in 2020, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, bottom trawling, fisheries management, fishing gear, fishing practices, IOF postdoctoral fellows, Project Seahorse, Sustainability, Xiong Zhang

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