A week before Brussels’ Ocean Week and a few months before the UN Ocean Conference in Nice, a group of researchers published the results of an unprecedented scientific effort: they redefine the concept of ‘sustainable fishing’ and propose eleven ‘golden rules’ that radically challenge the flawed notion that currently prevails in fisheries…
Experts Call for More Realistic Stock Assessments The state of fish stocks in the world’s oceans is worse than previously thought. While overfishing has long been blamed on fisheries policies setting catch limits higher than scientific recommendations, a new study from four Australian research institutions reveals that even those scientific…
A recent paper authored by the Sea Around Us’ PI, Dr. Daniel Pauly, research assistant, Elaine Chu, and Dr. Johannes Müller from Leiden University, has made the cover of the June print issue of the Journal of Fish Biology, where it was introduced by a brief essay in the ‘Between the Covers’…
We’re looking for 5 dynamic Research Assistants to join our expanding team! Position ID: Research Assistant Hours: Full-time project-based Location: Los Baños, Laguna Salary: Commensurate with required qualifications Job summary: Assist in the reconstruction of global fisheries catches Organizational Status: The Sea Around Us (www.seaaroundus.org) is a research initiative at…
Before Dr. Daniel Pauly, now the principal investigator of the Sea Around Us initiative at the University of British Columbia, became a doctoral student, he spent two years doing fisheries work in Indonesia. Having done his academic studies in Germany, he was surprised to discover a near absence of information on the growth…
A year since Dr. Daniel Pauly received a copy of the book “Eponym Dictionary of Fishes,” this resource has been instrumental in supplying the fundamental information on the origins of all eponyms in FishBase –a task that’s now nearing its completion. Recently, the publishers reached out to Dr. Pauly to…
The 22nd FishBase and SeaLifeBase Symposium, themed “Fishes in Changing Ecosystems,” will be hosted in Thessaloniki, Greece on 2-3 September 2024, at the KEDEA Building of the Aristotle University Campus. Day 1️⃣: Advances in the Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT)Contributions test the Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory’s applicability to new topics or taxa,…
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…
