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Daniel Pauly, Anna Luna Rossi and Fabrice Teletchea at the 2025 International Congress on Aquatic Sciences in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Sea Around Us team exposes coastal ecosystem pressures at Saint Pierre and Miquelon congress

Daniel Pauly, Anna Luna Rossi and Fabrice Teletchea at the 2025 International Congress on Aquatic Sciences in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Daniel Pauly, Anna Luna Rossi and Fabrice Teletchea at the 2025 International Congress on Aquatic Sciences in Saint Pierre and Miquelon. Photo by Studio Briand Photographe | Archipel Développement.

The Sea Around Us principal investigator, Dr. Daniel Pauly, and master’s student, Anna Luna Rossi, made a splash in Saint Pierre and Miquelon by participating in the fifth edition of the International Congress on Aquatic Sciences, which took place from September 28th to October 2nd, 2025.

The congress was structured around four main themes—fishing and aquaculture, citizen science and education, aquatic biodiversity, and maritime transport —and hosted 48 presentations, all of them meant to foster exchanges between researchers, businesses, and citizens, with a particular focus on young people.

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The Sea Around Us research associate, Dr. Vicky Lam, presenting at the International Symposium on Aquatic Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development in Major River Basins, in October 2025.

Reflections from Wuhan: A marine economist walks into a river basin symposium

The Sea Around Us research associate, Dr. Vicky Lam, presenting at the International Symposium on Aquatic Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development in Major River Basins, in October 2025.

The Sea Around Us research associate, Dr. Vicky Lam, presenting at the International Symposium on Aquatic Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development in Major River Basins
(October 24–26, 2025).

By Dr. Vicky Lam.

When the Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute invited me to Wuhan to deliver a keynote at the International Symposium on Aquatic Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development in Major River Basins (Oct 24–26, 2025), my first reaction was equal parts excitement and mild panic. I am trained primarily as a marine fisheries economist, so this symposium, which focused on river basins, represented a new domain for me. It was my first time presenting freshwater reconstruction work to an audience whose expertise is deeply rooted in inland systems.

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Fred Le Manach, Daniel Pauly, Claire Nouvian and Didier Gascuel.

Fishing down marine food webs and other pressing environmental issues exhibited in Paris

Fred Le Manach, Daniel Pauly, Claire Nouvian and Didier Gascuel.

Fred Le Manach, Daniel Pauly, Claire Nouvian and Didier Gascuel. Photo by Steve Fiehl© for BLOOM.

The Sea Around Us PI, Dr. Daniel Pauly, together with our advisory board member and founder of BLOOM, Claire Nouvian, advisory board member, Dr. Rashid Sumaila, and long-time collaborators, Dr. Didier Gascuel and Dr. Frédéric Le Manach, are among the scientists, activists, public servants, and students whose portraits are on display along the streets of Paris as part of the Biennale Photoclimat.

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New GOLT book to be released in 2026

Breathing water in a warming world cover

A new book focused on the principles and applications of the Gill-Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT) is scheduled for publication in March 2026.

Co-authored by the Sea Around Us PI, Dr. Daniel Pauly, and Dr. Johannes Müller, assistant professor at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, Breathing Water in a Warming World presents a theoretical framework for explaining how warming waters and deoxygenation affect the growth and reproduction of fish and other water-breathing animals.

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Poe Lagoon seen from an ULM aircraft

From paradise to peril: How deer hunting practices in New Caledonia may be attracting sharks

Tiger Shark. Image by Kevin Bryant

Tiger Shark. Image by Kevin Bryant, Flickr.

By Daniel Pauly.

From August 17 to 23, I was in the village of Alpbach in the Austrian Alps, which is, since September 1945 (!), home to an annual gathering of scientists, politicians and other personalities whose mission is to think about European unity, and to make it stronger.

The ‘European Forum Alpbach’ (EFA), as this event is now called, also includes a week during which about 500 people  (selected from over 7000 applicants) from European and other countries – PhD students, postdocs, NGO leaders and others – join different seminars to study various topics pertinent to European economic or scientific policies.

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