Restoring fisheries, conserving aquatic life, rebuilding ecosystems: Researching the options

Gaell — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:31:46 -0400

in this short movie, Rashid Sumaila analyses the alarming global issue of fisheries subsidies and its dreadful consequences for high and deep sea forms of life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bfmyw-3yys

Rashid is an Associate Professor and Director of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit at UBC.

more about him on his web page:

"Our planet's fisheries have reached their ecological limits. As benefits from fisheries decrease, pressure grows to develop other sources of revenue, not necessarily compatible with ecosystem health.

Policy and planning for ecosystem-based management must then be informed by knowledge of the interplay of human, biotic and environmental factors that affect ecosystem structure and function. Key requirements are sufficient time-depth to capture biodiversity, abundance and trophic structure prior to depletion, identification of the full range of benefits that healthy ecosystems provide to present and future generations and integration of the fine-scale knowledge of the maritime community with large-scale national and international fisheries management."

http://www.fisheries.ubc.ca/mission.php

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Restoring fisheries, conserving aquatic life, rebuilding ecosystems: Researching the options