MEDiverSEAty offers 10 PhD positions under Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie MEDiverSEAty is a Doctoral Network investigating human dimensions of Mediterranean Marine Biodiversity. The efforts made to conserve Mediterranean biodiversity are still facing the need to ensure a comparable implementation of the existing measures, a path that could be pursued by…
In a recent paper in the journal Fishes, researchers at the University of British Columbia’s Sea Around Us initiative gathered additional evidence supporting the idea that fish become sexually active – and spawn for the first time – in response to growth-induced respiratory stress, which intensifies in warmer, low-oxygen environments. By assembling and analyzing data on the…
Mini-symposium at Leiden University (hybrid):📢 Title: A New History of Fishes: Ichthyology in Context (1500-1880)📅 Date: Wednesday – 27 March 2024⏰ Time: 15:15 – 17:00 CET🏛️ Venue: Vossius room, Leiden University Library, Witte Singel 27, 2311 BG Leiden💻 Join via Zoom Fish and other forms of aquatic life have shaped…
On the 22nd of February 2023, a delightful presence graced the halls of the Q-quatics office in the Philippines as Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, Director General of WorldFish and Senior Director of Aquatic Food Systems at CGIAR, visited the office of the Q-quatics Executive Director. WorldFish is one of the…
Belizean fishers’ experience in the water confirms the declining trends in fishery catches – and, therefore, in fish populations – uncovered by the Belize Fisheries Project (BFP), of which the Sea Around Us is a member together with Comunidad y Biodiversidad (COBI), the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), Healthy Reefs for Healthy People…
Sharks have persisted as powerful ocean predators for more than 400 million years. They survived five mass extinctions, diversifying into an amazing variety of forms and lifestyles. But this ancient lineage is now among the world’s most threatened species groups due to overexploitation in poorly regulated fisheries and the . Governments…
By Rainer Froese I thought the background story of our recent publication ‘New developments in the analysis of catch time series as the basis for fish stock assessments: The CMSY++ method‘ may be of interest to young scientists. It all started in 2011, when I was visiting Daniel Pauly at…
by Daniel Pauly “The Tactics and Strategy of Growth in Fishes” is a 1974 paper by Thomas Derrick Iles, a work that Daniel Pauly emphasizes as essential. According to Dr. Pauly, Iles’ ideas signify a significant leap in comprehending the growth of fish, marking a substantial conceptual progress. “Notably, it…
The physical relief that temperate fish like cod and Atlantic herring experience after they allows them to breathe in more oxygen and develop a voracious appetite, all of which leads to a rapid increase in body weight. New research published in Environmental Biology of Fishes turns on its head the widespread notion that…
A recent update introduced to the CMSY methodology used for assessing the status of fish stocks has proven to be more accurate in predicting the catch that a population can support than highly-valued data-intensive models. In a paper published in the journal Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, the international team of researchers that shaped the…