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In the 1990s, the northern cod population in Newfoundland, Canada, collapsed by more than 99 per cent. (Ricardo Resende/Unsplash)

July 10, 2023

Climate change is transforming our oceans. Can fisheries management adapt?

Tyler Eddy, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Andrea Bryndum-Buchholz, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Having a flexible and adaptable management system is necessary to sustainably manage fisheries, especially in times of a rapidly changing climate.

Fish stocks are in decline around the world, in part because of the way we value nature and fail to account for their long-term benefits. (Shutterstock)

May 24, 2022

The future of fishing and fish — and the health of the ocean — hinges on economics and the idea of ‘infinity fish’

Rashid Sumaila, University of British Columbia

Humans have failed to take good care of the ocean — and the environment at large — because we undervalue its goods and services.

December 16, 2020

‘We didn’t have money or enough food’: how COVID‑19 affected Papua New Guinean fishing families

Jacqueline Lau, James Cook University and Sarah Ruth Sutcliffe, James Cook University

Decision-makers, locally and globally, must balance management of pandemics with a recognition that fish and fishing communities are essential to local well being.

Italian fishers unload a fishing net aboard a trawler during a fishing trip in the Tyrrhenian Sea in April 2020. Fishing subsidies are resulting in serious overfishing. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

July 23, 2020

Fisheries subsidies fuel ocean depletion and hurt coastal communities

Daniel Skerritt, University of British Columbia and Rashid Sumaila, University of British Columbia

Everyone who cares about marine biodiversity, fish, fishers, coastal communities and fishing industry workers of today and tomorrow must push for the end of fisheries subsidies.

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