Rashid Sumaila
Fishing is like a bank account
Photo courtesy of: The Daily Mail A recent post on the Science Magazine news blog repeats a comment by Elliot Norse of the Marine Conservation Biology Institute. Regarding deep sea fisheries, Dr. Norse says: “A population of fish is like a bank account, and its productivity is like the interest it earns. In shallow waters, [...]
Overfishing the oceans YouTube
Below is a short video that looks to be a mashup of clips from around the web including one of Dr. Sumaila. Watch below or click through to the YouTube clip.
Scenarios of global biodiversity
Head of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit, Rashid Sumaila is excited to have his first appearance in the journal Science, co-authoring an article titled “Scenarios for Global Biodiversity in the 21st Century.” The article, which first appeared online yesterday explores scenarios of biodiversity changes in the future using metrics such as species extinctions, species abundance [...]
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 [...]
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) discusses the way forward for fishery subsidies
A short new video posted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on video sharing site YouTube is an excellent quick introduction to fisheries subsidies and why it is an important issue. Watch for appearances by Dr. Sumaila at 1:22, 2:37, and 2:59 in the video below. Key concepts excerpted from the video are: “almost [...]
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 [...]
Sustainable development session appearance
Recently Dr. Sumaila was in Germany to present some of his work at a session for the European Commission’s 2009 Sustainable Development conference. An audio recording of the session titled “Enhancing global sustainability through international cooperation” is available in it’s entirety. You can listen for Dr. Sumaila’s presentation between 01:40:30 and 02:01:59 of the downloadable [...]
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
