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Sustainability at scale. Connecting 300,000 small-scale fishers in Latin America and the Caribbean for the mobilization of knowledge, solutions, and capital opportunities

Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL) 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia

Speaker: Dra. Espinosa Romero Directora General, COBI Mexico We need to move beyond demonstration models in coastal communities to scalable solutions that create resilience and address marine conservation and sustainable fisheries challenges at scale. Comunidad y Biodiversidad (COBI) has created Innovación Azul, a digital infrastructure initiative created to connect 300,000 small scale fishers to mobilize […]

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The growing case for fishing apps as a viable (and exciting!) source of data

Online/Virtual Event

Speaker: Dr. Paul Venturelli, Associate Professor of Fisheries, Ball State University Fisheries science and management require data that are often difficult or impossible to collect at broad spatial and temporal scales. The ubiquity of both anglers and mobile devices is stimulating interest in angler self-reporting as a cheap alternative. In this presentation, Dr. Venturelli combines […]

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Book Launch: Infinity Fish by Dr. Rashid Sumaila

Online/Virtual Event

Pursuing systematic change in the fisheries sector or interested in the preservation of marine resources? Join us for this virtual book launch by author and professor Rashid Sumaila and engage in a discussion on his new book, Infinity Fish: Economics and the Future of Fish and Fisheries. Please register in advance to receive the Zoom […]

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Conservation, conflict, and core beliefs: Examining conflict and opportunities towards transformation in an Orca-Salmon-Human system

Online/Virtual Event

Speaker: Lauren Eckert Ph.D. student, University of Victoria Conflict frequently emerges as a result of environmental management decisions or conservation interventions. Conflict is characterized by tensions between individuals or groups of stakeholders, and emerges due to clashes in goals, objectives, and more deeply-rooted beliefs and values. Social conflicts are often referred to as “wicked problems” […]

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Cumulative stressor impacts: towards a holistic measure of salmon health and condition

Online/Virtual Event

Speaker: Dr. Kristi M. Miller-Saunders Genetics and Genomics Section, Fisheries and Oceans, Canada, Pacific Biological Station, BC Wild salmon are experiencing declines worldwide. Cumulative and synergistic biotic and abiotic stressors associated with climate warming affecting salmon in their vulnerable smolt out-migration stage are critical, but teasing out factors of greatest impact is difficult. An intensive […]

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Subsidizing extinction: Subsidies, Sustainable Development Goals and the World Trade Organization

Online/Virtual Event

The ocean and biodiversity support our life, yet both are being degraded by direct (e.g. overexploitation, climate change) and indirect (e.g., unsustainable consumption) drivers. A key policy-related driver of ocean and terrestrial biodiversity degradation is harmful subsidies, i.e., government transfers to an economic sector, such as fishing and oil and gas, that lead to artificially […]

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