- Dec 9: LA Times: “Fish farms become feedlots of the sea” by Kenneth R. Weiss
- Dec 4: La Presse: “Zones sinistrées” by Jean-Marc Salvet
- Nov 16: Dagens Nyheter: “Last chance for cod” by Per Snaprud
- Nov 16: Le Soleil/La Presse: “Ultime solution : fermer une partie des océans” by Carl Thériault
- Nov 2: Le Devoir: “Gestion des pêches – Les océans sont-ils au bord de l’abîme?” by Claude Lafleur
- July 24: El Pais: “La pesca destruye la relación entre las especies“ by Alicia Rivera
- July 15: Le Figaro: “L’Europe écume les eaux africaines“, by Yves Miserey
- July 9: European Policy Centre: “Fisheries in trouble“
- July 9: Les Echos: “Le casse-tête de la politique commune de la pêche“ by Anne Bauer
- July 1: Le Soleil: “Surexploitation de nos ressources halieutiques” by Aliou Ba
- June 25: World Wildlife Fund: “The European Union must prevent a catastrophic collapse of West African fish stocks“
- June 25: Le Soleil: “Pêches maritimes, écosystemes et sociétés: le poids d’un demi-siècle de changements” by Moustapha Sene
- May 29: EU Business : “EU’s Fishing Crisis: The dark night of the shoal” by Richard Ingham and Annick Chapoy
- May 24: Green Nature: “Study: China Overreporting Fish Catches” by Stephanie Mann
- May 6: Le Figaro: “Le poisson disparaît de l’Atlantique Nord” by Jean-Michel Bader
- April 17: Worldcatch: “Scientists urge huge reduction in North Atlantic fishing fleet“; Portland Press Herald
- April 10: New York Times: “In Mexico, Greed Kills Fish by the Seaful“
- April 7: Victoria Advocate: “Technology blamed for fish decline” by Bijal P. Trivedi
- March 14: Irish Times: “Something fishy about the figures” by Dr William Reville
- March 14: The new West Indian: “Déclin de la pêche mondiale“
- March 13: Vineyard Gazette: “Studies Show Collapsing Fishery Wasteland” by Mark Alan Lovewell
- February 25: Vancouver Sun: “Declining fish stocks demand urgent action“
- February 23: Vancouver Sun: “Earthweek – A Diary of the Planet“
- February 22: Victoria Times Colonist: “Earthweek – A Diary of the Planet“
- February 21: agwelt.de: “Fischbestände des Nordatlantiks bedroht” by Franz
- February 20: Publico: “Ciências Pescas no Atlântico Norte podem entrar em colapso em 2025” by Ana Fernandes
- February 20: Eleftheria Trikalwn (Freedom of Trikala): “Sandwich with jellyfish. Fish stocks of North Atlantic will have been collapsed by the year 2010“
- February 18: Berliner Morgenpost: “Experten: Nordatlantik katastrophal leergefischt“
- February 18: Le Figaro: “Le poisson disparaît de l’Atlantique Nord” by Jean-Michel Bader
- February 18: Financial Times: “International Economy: Fish stocks face global collapse” by Clive Cookson
- February 18: meiBerlin: “Nordatlantik völlig überfischt“
- February 18: National Post: “Cut fleet numbers to help fish stocks recover: study“
- February 18: National Post: “Get ready for jellyfish sandwiches, scientists warn” by Margaret Munro
- February 18: Vancouver Sun: “Fish Stocks in Dire Straits: B.C. scientists” by Michael Smith
- February 17: Boston Globe: “N. Atlantic fish stocks fading, study finds” by Beth Daley
- February 17: Calgary Herald: “Fish species facing extinction: Scientists losing battle to manage stocks” by Michael Smith
- February 17: Financial Times: “Fish stocks face global collapse” by Clive Cookson
- February 17: Halifax Daily News: “Atlantic fishing fleets must be cut — study: Jellyfish may soon be the only thing left to catch
- February 17: Portland Press Herald: “Scientists urge huge reduction in North Atlantic fishing fleet
- February 17: St Johns Telegram: “Fish collapse spans Atlantic: New study calls for fleet reduction“
- February 17: Toronto Star: “Fish Stocks Facing Collapse“
- February 16: La Presse: “Le poisson disparaît de l’Atlantique Nord“
- February 16: Wissenschaft: “Nordatlantik bald leergefischt?“
- February 16: Washington Post: “North Atlantic fishery collapsing” by Michael Smith
- January 7: New York Times: “Troubled Seas“
- January 2: The San Francisco Examiner: “Tackling the tough stuff” by Patricia Unterman
- January/February: Ocean Update: “Study provides evidence of declines in global fisheries since late 80s” by Kieran Mulvaney
2002 Magazine Coverage
- December 12: L’Usine Nouvelle: “Faut-il Baisser Fortement les Quotas de Pêche?” by Jean Meilhaud
- November 25: Time: “Is Fish Farming Safe?” by Terry McCarthy
- October 18: National Fisherman: “Alone and Skewered” by Jerry Fraser
- October 17: Nature: “How many more fish in the sea?” by Quirin Schiermeier
- October (No. 14): Fishing in Europe: “Rekindling rationality back into fisheries“
- September 9: Newsweek: “Africa’s Lost Fish“
- August: Australasian Science: “Global Warming is Good (If You Like Calamari)“
- July/August: La Recherche: “Quand le poisson vient à manquer…” by Daniel Pauly, Reg Watson, et Villy Christensen
- July 13: New Scientist: “West Africa’s fish stocks collapse“
- May 27: Der Spiegel Online: “Fische in Seenot” by Philip Bethge
- May: Biodiversity: “Huge subsidies destroying Earth’s marine fisheries“
- April/May: Ocean Update: “North Atlantic Study Claims Food Fish Catches Have Declined by Half Despite Tripled Fishing Effort…“
- April 30: Fishing Boat World: “China’s Fishing Fleet Facing Massive Reduction“
- April 30: Scientific American: “Data Points: Fish Tales“
- April 19: Science: “Going to the Edge to Protect the Sea” by David Malakoff
- April: UBC Grad Tidings: “Fisheries Centre Researchers Make Waves“
- March/April: American Scientist: “Skewed Skepticism“
- March 4: Business Week: “Overfishing Threatens the North Atlantic’s Future“
- February 26: National Geographic: “Cold War Technology Helps Deplete Ocean Fisheries” by D.L. Parsell
- February 25: National Geographic: “Cold war military technologies have devastated global fish populations” by Bijal P. Trivedi
- February 22: Environmental Science & Technology: “Fish Food Facts” by Kellyn Bett
- February 21: The Economist: “Dead in the water“
- February 18: NewScientist: “Complete collapse of North Atlantic fishing predicted” by Kurt Kleiner
- January 21: Newsweek: “China’s statistics are fishier than their oceans” by Adam Piore and Paul Mooney
2002 Miscellaneous Media
- July 3: ENS News: “West African Fish Stocks Halved by Foreign Fleets“
- July 1: Le Soleil: “Surexploitation des ressources halieutiques : des experts sonnent l’alerte” by Aliou Ba
- June 28: WWF Italia: “L’allarme è stato lanciato oggi, nel corso di una conferenza stampa che si è tenuta a Dakar“
- April 19: Science: “Daniel Pauly Profile: Going to the edge to protect the sea” by David Malakoff
- February 20: SynEarth: “Fish Catches Have Declined by Half“
- February 18: Environment News Service: “High Tech Methods Decimating Fish Populations” by Cat Lazaroff
- February 18: Florida Museum of Natural History: “High Tech Methods Decimating Fish Populations“
- February 18: FutureTalk: “Complete collapse of North Atlantic fishing predicted” by Kurt Kleiner
- February 18: Jubilee Press Review: “Global fish stocks” from the Financial Times
- February 18: Weekly Whale News: “Quallensandwiches“
- February 18: n-tv.de: “Leere Meere: Nordatlantik überfischt“
- February 18: Science Daily: “Researchers Reveal Massive Reduction In Productivity Of The North Atlantic“
- February 16: BBC News: “Fish ‘massacre’ in North Atlantic” by Jonathan Amos
- February 16: SeaWeb: North Atlantic study reveals food fish catches have declined by half – despite tripled fishing effort by Jessica Brown
- February 16: Earth Crash Earth Spirit: “Scientists warn current rate of overfishing in the North Atlantic will result in an ocean-wide collapse within 10 years, leaving nothing but jellyfish and plankton“
- February 16: Eureka Alert!: “North Atlantic study reveals food fish catches have declined by half – despite tripled fishing effort“
- February 16: World Wildlife Fund: “Northwest Atlantic Ocean Needs More Protection“
- February: American Association for the Advancement of Science: “Massive Decrease in North Atlantic Fish, Researchers Report” by Coimbra Sirica
- February: American Cetacean Society: “Complete Collapse of North Atlantic Fisheries Predicted“
- February: New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers: “Let the big one get away“
- February: Sustainable Development International: “North Atlantic Study Reveals Food Fish Catches Have Declined by Half“
- January 5: Vecernjilist: “Zanimljivosti o ljudskom mozgu“
- January: Seafood: “Global supply of seafood in question” by Steven Hedlund
2002 Radio & TV Interviews
August 8 | Radio-Canada | Sustainability of World Fisheries | Daniel Pauly | |||
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June 15 and 16 | Earth and Sky | Marine Biomass and Marine Protected Areas | Daniel Pauly | Real Player (Full transcriptavailable) |
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February 23 | Epress.ca | “The effects of our past and current fishing practices on the future of the fisheries industry.” | Reg Watson | 18:22 | ||
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February 22 | Discovery Channel | “Biomass reductions in the North Atlantic on Discovery Canada;” with Jay Ingram (6.9 MB file 2:50 to download on 56.6 kbps modem; ) |
Daniel Pauly | 6:14 | Windows Media file (Alternate linkavailable) |
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February 21 | CBC This Morning | “A new study from the University of British Columbia says the commercial fishing industry is fast on its way to wiping out all the food fish in the sea” with Sheila Rogers (77 MB file) |
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February 20 | Weather Network | “R. Watson and the effects of weather on fisheries” with Oga Nwobosi (2 MB) ( 2.1 MB file) |
Reg Watson | 1:50 | Windows Media file |
2001 Newspaper Coverage
- December 28: CT Now: “The dangers of bad fish accounting” by Reg Watson
- December 26: Baltimore Sun: “Overfishing could lead to future without fishermen” by Joshua Reichert
- December 26: Victoria Times: “Troubling questions on fisheries”
- December 20: Bangor Daily News (OpEd): “Bad fish accounting revealed” by Reg Watson
- December 18: China Daily: “Fishery statistics accusation challenged” by Qin Chuan
- December 18: Muzi: “China on Tuesday rejected a report by Canadian researchers that it has overreported fishing catches“
- December 18: People’s Daily: “Statistics for China’s Fishing Output Credible: Official“
- December 18: Spanish.peopledaily.com: “Estadísticas sobre la producción pesquera de China“
- December 18: UN Wire: “Official Disputes Accusation Of Misreported Fish Catches“
- December 18: Xinhua News Agency: “Fishery Statistics Accusation Challenged“
- December 17: Business Week: “Innovations” by Otis Port
- December 16: St John’s Telegram: “Letting the big one get away” by David Suzuki
- December 12: Associated Press: “Treaty setting standards for fishing on high seas takes effect” by John Heilprin
- December 12: LA Times: “Fishing treaty takes effect” by John Heilprin
- December 12: San Francisco Chronicle: “A future without fish? World’s commercial fisheries must reverse course or face extinction” by Joshua S. Reicher
- December 5: Vancouver Sun: “Fisheries reports deserve wide public debate” by Joshua Reichert
- December 4: The Columbian: “Empty oceans” by Michael Zuzel
- December 4: ITN: “UNESCO oceans conference underway in Paris” by Ken Coons
- December 3: Greenwire: “Fisheries: Worldwide catches declining in spite of UN estimates” report by Damon Franz
- December 3: Washington Post: “Fish Catch Reports Questioned” by Rob Stein
- December 2: Augusta Chronicle: “Ocean fish catches have declined dramatically” by John Helprin
- December 2: Liberation (Paris): “Le poisson chinois fausse le filet de pêche mondial” by Sylvie Briet / Denis Delbecq
- December 1: International Herald Tribune: “China’s whopper of a fish tale” by Erik Eckholm
- December 1: The Sydney Morning Herald: “Size of the catch turned out to be fishy” by Erik Eckholm
- December 1: The Times-Picayune: “China’s whopper
- November 30: New York Times: Study says bad data by China inflated global fishing yields by Erik Eckholm
- November 30: The Age: “Statistics on catches fishy, say scientists” by Claire Miller
- November 30: New York Times: “Study says bad data by China inflated global fishing yields” by Erik Eckholm
- November 30: South China Morning Post: “Over-reporting by China ‘hides declining catches’” by Ray Cheung
- November 30: Wissenschaft: “Kurz gemeldt: Fischerei belastet Fischbestand stärker als vermutet” by Brigitte Kranz
- November 29: BBC News Asia Pacific: “China’s fishy figures belie state of world’s oceans” by Amy Carter
- November 29: Calgary Herald: “Chinese catch figures seem fishy to analysts“
- November 29: Cosmiverse News: “Global fish stock is falling“
- November 29: Edmonton Journal: “World’s fish stocks inflated due to China’s reporting, researchers say: False figures leading to overfishing” by Cassandra Szklarski
- November 29: Grist: Untitled
- November 29: Halifax Daily News Briefs: “Study: China inflates fish numbers“
- November 29: The Indepdendent: “China’s fishy tale puts global food supply in danger” by Charles Arthur
- November 29: The Olympian: “Study: Misreporting masks decline in fish catches“
- November 29: National Post: “British Columbia: Fish stocks overstated: report“
- November 29: The Record: “China skewing global catch?” by John Heilprin
- November 29: St Johns Telegram: “False reporting exaggerates fish stocks: study” by Cassandra Szklarski
- November 29: South Coast Today: “Chinese report hid dramatic decline in ocean fish stock” by John Heilprin
- November 29: Tampa Tribune Online: “China’s inflated numbers distort worldwide fish statistics” by John Heilprin
- November 29: The Toronto Star: “Fishy data puts China on hook“
- November 29: Vancouver Province: “Study: China falsifying fish figures“
- November 29: Vancouver Sun: “China accused of distorting fish catch data” by Larry Pynn
- November 29: Victoria Times Colonist: “China faking fishery numbers, researchers say“
- November 29: The Wall Street Journal: “World Fisheries Statistics“
- November 28: Agence France Presse: “Fish stocks: The future is the net“
- November 28: Associated Press: “Fewer fish are being caught” by John Heilprin
- November 28: Associated Press State: “Global fish catches declining” by John Heilprin
- November 28: Associated Press State and Local Wire: “Chinese misreporting masks decline in ocean fish catches” by John Heilprin
- November 28: Associated Press Worldstream: “Chinese misreporting masks decline in ocean fish catches” by John Heilprin
- November 28: Boston Globe: “Study provides startling evidence of declines in global fisheries ” from Ascribe Newswire
- November 28: Canadian Press Newsire: “Fish stocks greatly exaggerated by false reporting from China” by Cassandra Szklarski
- November 28: Desert News: “China masking trends in ocean-catch decline“; Associated Press
- November 28: Muzi: “Global fish catches declining” by John Heilprin
- November 28: MSNBC: “China, UN challenged over fish” by Miguel Llanos
- November 28: RPW Broadcast News: “Overreported – Fish“
- November 28: Sacramento Bee: “Slippery statistics mask declining worldwide fish populations” by John Heilprin
- November 28: WorldCatch News Network: “Chinese misreporting masks decline in ocean resources“; Associated Press
- November 27: St Johns Telegram: “Scientists gather for conference on resource sustainability” by Ken Thomas
- October 1: Le Figaro: “Le poisson chinois fausse le filet de pêche mondial” by Yves Miserey
- February 20: La Presse.ca: “La pêche au bord de l’effondrement partout sur la planète” by Mathieu Perrault