On April 6, 2023, members of the FISHGLOB Consortium offered a conference at the University of British Columbia’s Michael Smith Labs Theatre to present some of the findings of three years of work on issues related to marine species assemblages’ homogenization/differentiation through time, consequences on fish stocks shared across countries, and fishery management.
The conference was organized by the Sea Around Us together with the French Embassy in Canada, the University of Montpellier, FRB-CESAB: Centre de Synthèse et d’Analyse sur la Biodiversité and Rutgers University.
The event followed a week-long workshop during which the researchers involved brought together their individual efforts in collecting and combining unique data sets of more than 70 scientific trawl surveys across the globe (metadata and species abundance from more than 220,000 haul samples) and species traits of marine fishes.
The scientists also focused on assessing changes in species life-history strategy composition and community diversity of fish, across time at complementary spatial scales (local to global) in tropical, temperate and boreal ecosystems.
The speakers in the above video are:
- Bastien Mérigot, Marbec
- Aurore Maureaud, Yale University
- Zoë Kitchel, Rutgers University
- Malin Pinsky, Rutgers University
- Nancy Shackell, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)
- Robert Guralnick, USC
- Deng Palomares, Sea Around Us – University of British Columbia
Juliano A. Palacios, from the University of British Columbia, and James Thorson from NOAA, also contributed to this research.