Promoting Global Fisheries Sustainability Through Advanced Stock Assessment Science and International Collaboration 

From 11–14 May 2026, leading fisheries experts and young scientists gathered at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany, for the second Review Panel for Global Stock Assessments workshop under a Minderoo Foundation funded-project. The workshop brought together experts from across Europe, North America, and Asia to strengthen…

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The Ocean’s Whistleblower: A Conversation with Daniel Pauly

A momentous occasion presenting the biography of Dr Daniel Pauly, co-creator of FishBase and the man behind the brilliant concepts ‘shifting baselines’ and ‘fishing down marine food webs’, is taking place on June 9, 2022 at 6:00 PM  to 8:00 PM PST –both online (via Zoom) and onsite at the…

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Application of CMSY to reanalyze longest time series of catches and largest fishery collapse in history

Results of using CMSY, advanced yet easy to use fish stock assessment model developed at GEOMAR by Froese et al., to reanalyze more than five centuries of cod fishing in Eastern Canada suggests that annual yields could have been sustained at high levels if authorities had allowed the stock of…

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