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Tag: marine protected areas

Crystalline waters in Los Roques National Park in Venezuela

Paper Park Index helps identify 49 unprotected marine protected areas

March 23, 2023January 4, 2024
Crystalline waters in Los Roques National Park in Venezuela

Los Roques National Park in Venezuela. Photo by …your local connection, Flickr.

A new Paper Park Index (PPI) developed by researchers at the University of British Columbia’s Sea Around Us initiative helped identify 49 marine protected areas (MPAs) across the world where enough fishing takes place to contravene the protection status officially assigned to such sites.

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Daniel Pauly, Sea Around Us - IMPAC5 - 5Feb2023 - Photo by IISD - IMPAC5

Daniel Pauly at IMPAC5 – De facto MPAs vs. paper parks

February 13, 2023January 4, 2024

What is the difference between marine protected areas that actually work and paper parks?

With the premise in mind, the Sea Around Us principal investigator, Dr. Daniel Pauly, offered a keynote presentation at the Fifth International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC5), held in Vancouver from February 3 to February 9, 2023.

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IMPAC5 keynote speakers Hinano Teavai-Murphy, Ruth Mthembu, and Daniel Pauly

Daniel Pauly among IMPAC5 keynote speakers

December 5, 2022January 4, 2024
IMPAC5 keynote speakers Hinano Teavai-Murphy, Ruth Mthembu, and Daniel Pauly

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.

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Sea Around Us PhD candidate going to COP27

Sea Around Us PhD candidate going to COP27

September 15, 2022January 4, 2024
Sea Around Us PhD candidate going to COP27

Veronica Relano.

 

The Sea Around Us PhD candidate Veronica Relano is among the 10 members of the University of British Columbia’s delegation travelling to Egypt to attend the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP27).

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Local stakeholder involvement key to understanding protection level of MPAs

Local stakeholder involvement key to understanding protection level of MPAs

August 5, 2022January 4, 2024

Local stakeholder involvement key to understanding protection level of MPAs
Red pencil urchin at the Papahānaumokuākea MPA. Photo by James Watt, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service – Pacific Region, Wikimedia Commons.

Knowledge provided by local stakeholders such as non-governmental organizations, academics, civil servants, journalists, and fishers can be valuable for evaluating the effectiveness of countries’ marine protected areas (MPAs).

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Partners & Sub-Projects

The Sea Around Us has several key research partners who collaborate with us on an ongoing basis. In addition, we engage with occasional, targeted sub-projects based on issues of common interest.

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Sea Around Us launches catch reconstruction course to empower global fisheries research

Sea Around Us data users interested in learning how to perform a catch reconstruction update now have access to a suite of free video tutorials. The step-by-step guides, available in English with carefully curated subtitles, are presented in an easy-to-understand animated video format led by a researcher named Ola.

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