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2008
2007
- December 13: Time magazine Laying Waste to the Deep Sea
- December: veja.com Multiplicacao dos peixes (in Portugese)
- December 13: Nature All fishing nations must unite to cut subsidies
- November 24: The Gazette, Memorial University Coastal project team negotiates its terms of research
- November 1: UBC Reports Fishing For Trouble Governments subsidize plundering of oceans
- October 19: Intrafish.com Aquaculture's growth rate actually is declining
- September 19: Time Magazine: Fish Farming's Growing Dangers
- July 18: Wall Street Journal Online: Global Fishing Trade Depletes African Waters
- July 2: Centrepoint: Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars Fishing for a Secure Future
- July 1: CBC: Lament for lost way of life in Newfoundland 15 years after cod moratorium
- April 12: Voice of America News: Deep-Sea Trawlers Threaten Marine Life
- April 3: Globe and Mail, Canada: We are fishing our oceans to death
- March 22: Bloomberg.com US proposes ban on fishing subsidies in global trade talks
- March 13: The Ubyssey Subsidies threaten high seas fisheries
- March 9: Ming Pao Daily News, Hong Kong Environmental group chooses 4 locations for fishing ban (in chinese)
- March 9: Metro, Hong Kong Hong Kong Fisheries recovery could produce HK$ 10 billion in benefits (in chinese)
- March 9: Hong Kong Commercial Daily Critical time for saving Hong Kong's fisheries (in chinese)
- March 9: Ta Kung Pao, Hong Kong Half of Hong Kong fishers may be willing to switch livelihoods if they receive appropriate compensation (in chinese)
- March 9: The Sun, Hong Kong Fisheries has negative effect for divers (in chinese)
- March 9: South China Morning Post, Hong Kong Fishing curb may net HK$2.6b: study
- March 8: WWF Hong Kong Compensation to fishing industry is key to unlocking massive economic benefits to Hong Kong concludes WWF-UBC report
- March 8: Agence France Presse Conservationists push Hong Kong fishing ban
- March 8: Reuters WWF urges Hong Kong to reel in fishing industry
- March 5: International Press Service Ocean Fisheries Maxed Out
- February 22: Presentation by Rashid Sumaila at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC: Globalized Trade and the Macroeconomics of Capture Fisheries
- February 19: Subsidies to high seas bottom trawling fleets - coverage from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting
BBC News, UK: Call to halt deep sea 'plunder'
Telegraph.co.uk, UK: Scientists call for fuel subsidies ban to protect fish
New Scientist, UK: Deep-sea trawling neither green no profitable
Seaweb, USA: The last wild hunt-Deep sea fisheries scrape bottom of the sea
Mongabay.com, USA: Government subsidies drive deep-sea fish depletion
Independent Online, South Africa: Ban subsidies to save our oceans
The Times, UK: Fishing subsidies 'destroy oceans' say scientists
The Guardian, UK: Call to halt fleet subsidies to save deep sea fish
National Review Online, USA: Tragedy of the Ocean Commons
Financial Times, UK: Call for end to subsidies on deep-water trawling
Santa Barbara Times, USA: Our Opinion: Deep-sea fish are on the line
Suddeutsche Zeitung, Germany: Lasst die Alten unten
Science Magazine NewsBlog: Fishing Like an Economist
- January 23: SeaFoodIntelligence.com MSC goes fishing for public comment on definition of ‘sustainable fishing’; "Improving transparency"
- January 23: FISHupdate.com International marine certification programme invites comment on the definition of sustainable fishing
- January 5: UBC Reports Vol. 53 No.1 In The News: State-Subsidized Destruction at Sea, Fish Feelings
2006
2005
2004
- July 16: FERU: Dr. Ussif Rashid Sumaila has been
appointed to the 2004 James Chair Professorship at St Francis
Xavier Uinversity. St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish,
Nova Scotia, appoints James Chair professors every year. The James
Chair allows the University to bring leading researchers and teachers
to campus to provide intellectual interaction and research support
for the University's faculty and senior students.
- May 14: FERU: Material on a recently concluded
OECD
Workshop on "IUU fishing activities" is available
online.
- May 14: FERU: Material on a recently concluded
UNEP
Workshop on "Fisheries Subsidies and Sustainable Fisheries
Management" is available online.
- March 24: FERU: IIFET
Distinguished Service Award to FERU member Dr. Gordon Munro
- March 2: FERU: First
call for the Optimal Harvesting Strategies for Hake Fisheries
in Namibia and South Africa First Stakeholder Workshop on May
24-25, 2004, Cape Town, South Africa. Host: University of Western
Cape.
- January 29: FERU: Professors Trond Bjorndal,
Ragnar Arnason, Daniel Gordon, and Rashid Sumaila are hosting
a conference in honour of Professor Gordon R. Munro. Please visit
the conference
website for details.
2003
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