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2008

August 14: Georgia Straight Waves of disaster
August 14: Georgia Straight Waves of disaster
July 16: 24 Hours News Services Full-Price Fuel
July 15: UBC Public Affairs Fuel subsidies better spent re-training fishers: UBC researchers
June 19: Los Angeles Times Pacific Nations Ban Tuna Boats to Stop Stock Collapse
June 16: Bloomberg.com Pacific Nations Ban Tuna Boats to Stop Stock Collapse
March 4: National Geographic Strange Days on Planet Earth series Overfishing Impacts: Interview with Dr. Ussif Rashid Sumaila (video clip)
March 9: New York Times Editorial Oceans at Risk
Summary of AAAS related media releases on tuna management
March 3: Globe and Mail WTO weighs if EI for fishermen is an unfair subsidy
February 20: Regina Leader Post Tuna could see cod-like collapse
February 20: The National Post World's tuna stocks under seige, say scientists
February 20: The Vancouver Sun Conservation measures needed to save tuna: experts
February 20: Innovations reprt, Germany Learning from cod collapse to save tuna
February 18: UBC.ca UBC scientist invokes future generations to save tuna populations from collapse
February 5: The Daily Green 5 Ocean Research Breakthroughs on the Horizon
February 5: University of Miami Rosentiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science 2008 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation awarded to Dr. Ussif Rashid Sumaila
February 5: Vancouver Sun UBC professor wins award to study overfishing
January 28: Telegraph UK A fifth of world's fish landings 'are illegal'
January 21: New York Times Until All the Fish Are Gone

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

December 13: Associated Press Senate approves Bill to revamp fisheries
December 7: The Chronicle Herald Halifax Faith-based science and all that fish
November 20: The Gazette newspaperState-subsidized destruction at sea
November 17: The Vancouver SunFuel subsidies keep trawlers 'strip-mining' the sea
September 19: BBC News websiteStunning finds of fish and coral
Raja Ampat is the site of a collaborative project between FERU and Conservation International

May 4: UBC Reports Special Congregation Issue Profile of Louise Teh (FERU member) and Lydia Teh
May 1: Broadcast of CBC mini-documentary On the Island
April 2: Maine Sunday Telegram Maine Voices: Without drastic measures, Gulf of Maine cod fishery will be lost forever by Priscilla Brooks and Rashid Sumaila
January 11: Secretary-General report on marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction
January 06: The Washington Post NOAA Puts On Hold Draft Rules to Prevent Overfishing by Juliet Eilperin

2005

November 29: E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs: E2 in Washington (http://www.e2.org/ext/jsp/controller?docId=8840)
October 18: PR Newswire: Hidden Treasure: Rebuilding Fish Stocks Triples Catch Value, Study Says
July 25: Regional co-operatiogn makes economic sense
June 23: Nature: Bill on deep-sea fish farms brings wave of disapproval by Rex Dalton, San Diego
May 10-16; Issue 811: Business in Vancouver: Study throws cold water on B.C. sablefish aquaculture by Paul Harris
May 7: Anchorage Daily News: Alaska's Newspaper: Report casts doubt on B.C cod farming by Laine Welch
May 5: Seafood Intelligence: Economic report looks at BC sablefish farming; Claims its 'unlikely to boost economy' in province
May 5: Intrafish: Study says farmed sablefish not economically, ecologically viable
in British Columbia

May 5: Marine Conservation Alliance, Fish Radio: Economists give thumbs down to black cod farming in B.C (MP3 file) by Laine Welch
Feb 18: CBC News, Vancouver : BC's largest salmon farming operations in trouble by Mike Laanela

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

December 23: FERU: FERU hosts the 2005 NAAFE Forum

November 26:Small Pelagics and Climate Change Programme: SPACC Workshop on the economics of small pelagics and climate change - Portsmouth, UK, September 2004 dates to be confirmed)

October 19: Sustainable Fisheries Fund: Sustainable Fisheries Fund grantmaking schedule (in PDF)

August 5: Vancouver Sun: "Fish farming depends on wild fish" by Dale Marsden, FERU RA

June 27: FERU: World Fisheries Congress - FERU will have a presence in the economics session: Q2-5.

June 20: Sustainable Fisheries Fund: Sustainable Fisheries Fund

May 30: CBC One: Swimming Scallops (13.5 MB Real Player file)

March 5: FERU: The Dollars and Sense of Protecting the Ocean