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Asian Development Bank meets in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
The Asian Development Bank’s annual meeting this year was in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and sustainable fisheries were hot on the agenda. The Fisheries Economics Research Unit’s Dr. Rashid Sumaila was in attendance to speak about the importance of overfishing to Asia, which, consumes more than two thirds of the landings from the world’s marine environments. Dr. [...]
End of the line film plugged by Ellen DeGeneres
The star of the Ellen DeGeneres show has recently plugged the documentary film End of Line in which Dr. Sumaila is featured. Photo via: Wikimedia Commons From Ellen’s Twitter stream recently: “Have you heard of this documentary “End of the Line?” I just heard about it. If you care about the planet, please watch it.” [...]
Explaining the importance of the ocean to humanity in video
Dr. Sumaila appears in a video with several notable celebrities including Leonardo Dicaprio and Prince Charles. In this video concerning the health of the earth’s oceans and climate change Dr. Sumaila says: Scientists have predicted: every second breath of humans depends on the oceans. So the oceans are central to our livelihoods and our survival [...]
Questioning the effectiveness of consumer awareness campaigns in fisheries
The Vancouver Sun reports yesterday on a paper by the Sea Around Us project’s Jennifer Jacquet and co-authored by Rashid Sumaila of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit. Coverage by that news organization is just one of several who have picked up on the story that consumer awareness programs, such as the Marine Stewardship Council’s product [...]
Fisheries subsidies discussed by MacLean’s magazine
Nancy Macdonald of MacLean’s magazine uses some information from Catching more bait: a bottom-up re-estimation of global fisheries subsidies in a recent article available on-line. She references our estimate of more than $US 30 billion in subsidies to global fishing fleets annually. Photo by: Grantsviews (via Flickr) Macdonald accurately suggests that low food prices are [...]
Short Fishery Subsidy Interview at AAAS 2007
Although this is an older (2007) video, it is worthy of mention since Dr. Sumaila expands a little further on the impact of subsidies in the high seas, difficulties associated with removing subsidies, and mentions an estimate of total subsidies to the world’s fisheries from Sumaila et al. (2006) — more than USD $30 billion. [...]
YouTube: Dr. Rashid Sumaila on overfishing
Dr. Sumaila has long been a vocal critic of the established practice of subsidizing fisheries around the globe. This video focuses on the Ghanaian economy, however, the idea that fishery subsidies negatively affect global fish stocks can be extrapolated to many, if not all, other regions. ———————————————— Source: YouTube Video
