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The Sea Around Us' Daniel Pauly interviewed by De Groene Amsterdammer.

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When whales die, they sink to the ocean floor and all the carbon that is stored in their enormous bodies is transferred from surface waters to the deep sea, where it remains for centuries or more.

Our researchers discovered global declines, some severe, of many popularly consumed species.

A new study from UBC's Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries uses the isotopes from sockeye #salmon scales to trace migratory behaviour in the North Pacific, which may help to manage specific stocks.

Almost no #fisheries are truly #sustainable, says #DanielPauly. It’s so bad, he says. Sustainable is not a reliable term anymore. So many fisheries have been reduced to a small fraction of what they once were. You can ‘sustainably’ #fish them at that diminished level, but they really need to be rebuilt to support the ecosystem. According to a number of papers published by leading scientists, the agencies that certify fisheries are deeply flawed, and many fish that have the sustainable label applied to them are anything but. https://www.outsideonline.com//plant-based-fish-seafood-go via Outside Magazine Sea Around Us

The European Union (EU) has just six weeks to take the reins on their #fisheries #subsidies talks says Dr. Rashid Sumaila and #DanielPauly. As 2nd largest subsidizer in the world EU can end those subsidies and enhance #ocean health. https://www.euractiv.com//no-time-for-empty-promises-euro/ @Euroactiv Fisheries Economics Research Unit Sea Around Us

The fish numbers have increased in recent years, reaching into the hundreds of thousands, and now the First Nation fears that at any moment Fisheries and Oceans Canada could reopen the commercial fishery and start the destructive cycle all over again. They, along with scientists, are skeptical that the ecosystem can support the scale of fishing it once did. It’s not too far from where it was, but it may never be what it was again, says Dr. Brian Hunt, a biological oceanographer at the University of British Columbia who studies that all-important timing. The ocean is just changing so dramatically that we may never get back to the productivity that we’d want to see.

WTO aiming to net #fishing deal. Dr. Rashid Sumaila warns about #fisheries subsidies - $35.4 billion in 2018 with $22 billion of that going towards building up fishing fleets lead to #overfishing. https://news.yahoo.com/wto-aiming-net-fishing-deal-02062087 via Yahoo News Fisheries Economics Research Unit

Hippocampus ingens is commonly known as the Giant or Pacific #seahorse, most likely because it can be found all along the #Pacific coast from #California to #Chile. This one was in Guerrero, #Mexico by #iNaturalist user Valeriamas #WildlifeWednesday #FishareWildlifeToo

When Nathan Bennett looks at B.C.’s #fisheries, he sees problems with low stocks, and also challenges for #fish harvesters' ability to get into the industry and their ability to afford the costs of being able to go out #fishing. https://www.nationalobserver.com//biggest-hurdle-fish-harv National Observer Changing Ocean Research Unit OceanCanada

Congratulations to William Cheung who has been named as a Highly Cited Research of 2020 by Clarivate Web of Science. https://publons.com/researcher/2641838/william-cheung/ Changing Ocean Research Unit

Ocean Finance: Financing the Transition to a Sustainable Ocean Economy. https://oceanpanel.org//2020-10/Ocean%20Finance%20Full%20P Lead author: Dr. Rashid Sumaila

Report by Juan Jose Alava warns about heavy metals that pose a risk to the marine ecosystem in the Baynes Sound area, and by extension, humans. Most of these contaminants are toxic, with critical implications for public health and food safety." https://www.bclocalnews.com//commercial-marina-again-prop/

RESEARCH: Catch and trade bans for #seahorses can be negated by nonselective #fisheries https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/aqc.3419 Project Seahorse. #India #bycatch #bottomtrawling

SEEKING: Postdoctoral Fellow: Ocean Equity and Blue Economy Analogues. This position is part of an international/ interdisciplinary research collaboration on #BlueEconomy. Part of @OceanNexusCtr, working with @AndresMCisneros #UBCOceans. Deadline: Nov 20! https://oceans.ubc.ca//postdoctoral-fellow-ocean-equity-a/

Daniel Pauly takes the top spot as the most cited fisheries scientist in PLoS Biology study. Read the full story http://bit.ly/blog120sau

Did you miss yesterday's #UBCOceans Quantitative Seminar with Dr. Josh Korman? "Effects of drought and climate on growth and abundance of Rainbow Trout in the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam" is now available on our YouTube channel https://youtu.be/CL-3XunGuKM

If we place human rights and nature at the heart of sustainable development, humans could attain a just and sustainable future in which people live happy, healthy and fulfilling lives in harmony with nature on this beautiful but beleaguered blue-green planet. UBC Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability

Commercial marina proposed for Union Bay, bringing up questions about the safety of dredging due to #contamination. Report from UBC marine researcher Dr. Juan Jose Alava that notes the presence of materials such as copper, lead, zinc, cadmium, mercury and aluminum, among others. Most of these contaminants are toxic and some of them can bioaccumulate and biomagnify in the nearshore benthic and pelagic food webs with critical implications for public health and food safety for... coastal communities, heavily dependent on traditional seafoods, he writes. https://www.comoxvalleyrecord.com//commercial-marina-agai/ via CV Record #pollution

In order to help these whales, we need to know more about them how they hunt, and where their food is, explains Andrew Trites , project lead and director of the Marine Mammal Research Unit UBC (MMRU). Drone technology is allowing us to be a fly on the wall and observe these animals undisturbed in their natural settings.

Miss #DanaMiller from Oceana Europe's talk on "Fighting IUU fishing through improving corporate due diligence" on Friday? Watch it now! https://youtu.be/4HN5eLCYXC0 #IUUfishing #illegalfishing #fishing #duediligence #insurance ... Fisheries Economics Research Unit See more

Large oceanic fishes such as tunas and sharks bring down carbon from the atmosphere to the deep ocean. Overfishing damages such machinery in nature, so protected areas and fisheries management are also climate solutions, says #WilliamCheung Changing Ocean Research Unit @Science magazine https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/44/eabb4848

RESEARCH: Let more big #fish sink: #Fisheries prevent blue #carbon sequestrationhalf in unprofitable areas https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/44/eabb4848 via Science Changing Ocean Research Unit

Bank loans scrutinized for harm to wildlife as well as climate https://reut.rs/34xls7V via Reuters UBC Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability #ClimateChange

Why cracking down on the #shark fin trade may be easier than we thought. Every species has a preferred environment, range of temperatures & an optimal temperature where they can thrive, says Gabriel Reygondeau https://www.nationalgeographic.com//many-shark-fins-come-/ via National Geographic Why Sharks Matter gabs.rygd Changing Ocean Research Unit

Hunting for truth about the global #shark fin trade; a $400 million business that kills as many as 100 million sharks each year. https://www.montereybayaquarium.org//hunting-for-truth-abo via Monterey Bay Aquarium. Research collaborators include: #GabrielReygondeau, Nereus Program, Changing Ocean Research Unit

"We still believe that the fishing sector and the fishing community should be supported but we think that there are better ways to do that; ways that have a long-term vision," says #DanielSkerritt about #EU #fisheries #subsidies. https://oceans.ubc.ca/2020/10/22/eusubsidies-qa/ Dr. Rashid Sumaila

RESEARCH: Modeling the Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification Potential of Microplastics in a Cetacean Foodweb of the Northeastern Pacific: A Prospective Tool to Assess the Risk Exposure to Plastic Particles https://www.frontiersin.org//10.3389/fmars.2020.566101/full via @Frontiers in Marine Science