Marine fisheries are in crisis, requiring twice the fishing effort of the 1950s to catch the same quantity of fish, and with many fleets operating beyond economic or ecological sustainability. A possible consequence of diminishing returns in this race to fish is serious labour abuses, including modern slavery, which exploit vulnerable workers to reduce costs.
Postwar growth of industrial fisheries catch to its peak in 1996 was driven by increasing fleet capacity and geographical expansion. An investigation of the latter, using spatially allocated reconstructed catch data to quantify “mean distance to fishing grounds,” found global trends to be dominated by the expansion histories of a small number of distant-water fishing countries …
World-leading fisheries expert Prof. Daniel Pauly will deliver a free public lecture at the University Club of Western Australia, UWA on the role of oxygen in the responses of fishes to a warming ocean. The event is supported by the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies …
Collaborator and Sea Around Us Principal Investigator, Prof. Daniel Pauly, has been named Chevalier de la Légion D’Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) in a presidential decree on French National Day, July 14, 2017 …
Students and staff of the Centre for the Marine Futures and the UWA School of Biological Sciences were among the lucky few to embark on an inspiring and important intellectual journey over a week-long masterclass delivered by world-leading fisheries expert …
Mark your diaries! Fisheries expert Prof. Daniel Pauly will take a historical look at our relationship with the oceans and the current challenges facing global food security in a public lecture entitled “Fisheries and Global Warming: Impacts on marine ecosystems” …