The World Bank study, authored with contributions by Rashid Sumaila and William Cheung, predicts that the global fisheries sector is likely to lose an estimated $US 9.6 billion in revenues per year from 2050 due to climate change. See Bloomberg, BBC, and Reuters Africa for international coverage.

Study led by Jennifer Jacquet, a post-doctoral fellow at UBC's Fisheries Centre, was published in Oryx: the International Journal of Conservation, and finds that 30 million tonnes or 36 per cent of the world's annual total fisheries catch is ground up into fishmeal and oil to feed farmed animals. See Vancouver Sun article here.

Waleed Giratalla (MSc Candidate, School of Regional and Community Planning) was awarded a $12,000 fellowship; Nicole Miller and Zofia Brown, both PhD candidates in the Resource Management and Environmental Studies program, had previous funding extended - more