IMPAC5 keynote speakers Hinano Teavai-Murphy, Ruth Mthembu, and Daniel Pauly.
The Sea Around Us principal investigator, Dr. Daniel Pauly, is among the speakers that will be giving keynote presentations at the Fifth International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC5) being held in Vancouver, Canada on February 3-9, 2023.
Following a recent meeting in Toulouse, the EcoScope Project coordinator, Athanassios Tsikliras of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, visited Vancouver in mid-November with the goal of strengthening the collaboration between the project and its UBC partners.
EcoScope is an initiative that aims to promote an effective and efficient, ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management.
The Sea Around Us is pleased to announce that the marine fisheries catch data and derived indicators on its database have been updated to the year 2019.
After months of intensive work, we can now proudly say that time series with 70 years’ worth of data (1950-2019) are available for free viewing or downloading on www.seaaroundus.org.
Tilapia in a fish farm. Photo by Aqua Mechanical, Flickr.
Trends in global aquaculture growth rates reveal that the 101 million tonnes of farmed fish intergovernmental bodies expect countries to produce by 2030 may be unrealistic.
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Black Snapper (or black and white snapper), Macolor niger at Gota Sorayer, Red Sea, Egypt. Photo by Derek Keats, Wikimedia Commons.
In a recent piece published in the journal PLOS Biology, the Sea Around Us alumna and NYU professor Jennifer Jacquet, and our principal investigator, Daniel Pauly, ponder the idea of wild fish and invertebrates being considered more like wild animals and less like tradable commodities.