Dr. William Cheung joins UBC’s delegation to COP28
Dr William Cheung will join UBC’s third annual delegation of students, faculty, and staff attending the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, this November
Climate change will have an adverse impact on trophic amplification in marine food webs
Climate-driven changes in ocean environmental conditions — ocean warming, deoxygenation and acidification — are projected to affect the physiological functions of marine organisms, their geographic distributions, biological life cycles and total biomass.
Fish buffered from recent marine heatwaves, showing there’s still time to act on climate change
Fish were surprisingly resilient to marine heatwaves before 2019, highlighting the need to keep seas from warming further, according to new research.
IOF meets with U.S. Consulate General Vancouver
On August 25, 2023, members of the IOF community met with a delegation from the U.S. Consulate General Vancouver.
European fisheries under threat, climate change may impact on future catch
Without rapid adaptation or aggressive mitigation tactics, climate change is projected to induce profound negative consequences on future fisheries production in Europe.
Op-ed: To Prove its Climate and Biodiversity Ambitions the EU Must Protect the Ocean’s Carbon Engineers
An op-ed article by Drs. William Cheung and Rashid Sumaila regarding the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP15, that is currently taking place opened in Montreal.
Kx Spotlight – Collaboration, the key to fighting climate change
With partnerships spanning across disciplines, sectors and borders, and with academics and non-academics (including Indigenous communities, NGOs, policy makers, businesses and media) collaboration is at the centre of their work.
New Working Paper: A rich analysis of the economic, social and environmental effects of harmful fisheries at the ecosystem level
The effects of harmful fisheries subsidies in three marine ecosystems, chosen for their importance in terms of food security, size and diversity; and three different management scenarios are examined.
IOF goes to Ottawa
Drs. William Cheung, Daniel Pauly, Andrea Reid, and Rashid Sumaila attended the Oceana Canada’s Science Symposium in Ottawa
Global fish stocks can’t rebuild if nothing done to halt climate change and overfishing, new study suggests
“We are at a turning point. What we need is a coordinated global effort to develop practical and equitable marine conservation measures to support effective biomass rebuilding under climate change,” said Dr. William Cheung