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Explaining the importance of the ocean to humanity in video

Andrew Dyck — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:38:35 +0000

Dr. Sumaila appears in a video with several notable celebrities including Leonardo Dicaprio and Prince Charles. In this video concerning the health of the earth’s oceans and climate change Dr. Sumaila says:

Scientists have predicted: every second breath of humans depends on the oceans. So the oceans are central to our livelihoods and our survival on the planet.

For more information about this video with transcription, see the full post at sumprememastertv.com.

Video from in Indonesia brings an artisinal sardine fishery to life

Andrew Dyck — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:28:35 +0000

For many people, thoughts of fisheries brings to mind images of industrial fleets with sophisticated boats and gear. However, another side of fishing that is rarely seen in many parts of the world is the focus of work by Eny Buchary who is a current PhD candidate working with Dr. Tony Pitcher of the Policy and Ecosystem Restoration in Fisheries (PERF) group at the UBCFisheries Centre.

Eny describes the video, which she believes to be the only one documenting this particular fishery saying:

“[t]his video clip shows crew members of “Sumber Jaya”, a pair-boat purse seine (called “Slerek”), hauling sardine in the Bali Strait, Indonesia. The fishing activity occurred during the night of September 22, 2004, from about 7PM to 4:30AM. The fleet had 48 crew members, including the skipper/captain (who sat on the ‘high bench’). My two assistants and I were invited by the fleet owner to participate in the fishing activity as observers. We were on the ‘fish boat’ throughout the night. In this clip, my camera was pointing towards the ‘net boat’. Listen to the crew members sang – in a cappella – interlocking notes as they hauled the net.”

You can learn more about Eny Buchary and her PhD research work, of which this video is a part, by visiting her homepage. More about the fishery pictured in the clip above will appear in Eny’s PhD dissertation titled In search of viable policy options for responsible use of sardine resources in the Bali Strait, which she will defend in February of this year. The citation for her dissertation is:

Buchary, E. in press. In search of viable policy options for responsible use of sardine resources in the Bali Strait, Indonesia. PhD dissertation. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 350p. Unpublished (to be defended in February 2010).

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) discusses the way forward for fishery subsidies

Andrew Dyck — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:05:22 +0000

A short new video posted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on video sharing site YouTube is an excellent quick introduction to fisheries subsidies and why it is an important issue. Watch for appearances by Dr. Sumaila at 1:22, 2:37, and 2:59 in the video below.

Key concepts excerpted from the video are:

“almost every subsidy is potentially harmful”

“Subsidies even contribute to widespread illegal fishing”

“there are still complex issues on the negotiating table and it is crucial these are resolved….and soon.”

See the Fisheries Subsidies blog for more discussion of the video.

Also see UNEP’s Economics and Trade Branch (ETB) for further information

Short Fishery Subsidy Interview at AAAS 2007

Andrew Dyck — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:48:54 +0000

Although this is an older (2007) video, it is worthy of mention since Dr. Sumaila expands a little further on the impact of subsidies in the high seas, difficulties associated with removing subsidies, and mentions an estimate of total subsidies to the world’s fisheries from Sumaila et al. (2006) — more than USD $30 billion.

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Source: YouTube Video

Dr. Sumaila Overfishing Interview

Andrew Dyck — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:16:07 +0000

Dr. Sumaila has long been a vocal critic of the established practice of subsidizing fisheries around the globe. This video focuses on the Ghanaian economy, however, the idea that fishery subsidies negatively affect global fish stocks can be extrapolated to many, if not all, other regions.

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Source: YouTube Video