Ocean Wise & the Coastal Ocean Research Institute are pleased to invite nominations for the 2018 Ocean Awards
Recipients are honoured for their invaluable contributions to understanding, conserving, and communicating the diverse and irreplaceable aquatic ecosystems of western Canada and the species that inhabit them. We are seeking nominations for the following awards:
OceanCanada partner Oceana Canada has released its second annual Fishery Audit.
The Fishery Audit reports on the state of fish stocks and tracks progress on how well the government is meeting its policy and management commitments. Fisheries and Oceans Canada has made significant investments in federal fisheries science, and the department continues to increase transparency by releasing its annual Sustainability Survey for Fisheries and departmental work plans. Despite the investments, there has been no measurable change in fisheries management or stock health.
Labour abuses, including modern slavery, are ‘hidden subsidies’ that allow distant-water fishing fleets to remain profitable and promote overfishing, new research from the University of Western Australia and the Sea Around Us initiative at the University of British Columbia has found.
Humanity and the way we feed, fuel and finance our societies and economies are pushing nature and the services that power and sustain us to the brink, according to WWF’s Living Planet Report 2018. The report, released today, presents a sobering picture of the impact of human activity on the world’s wildlife, forests, oceans, rivers and climate, underlining the rapidly closing window for action and the urgent need for the global community to collectively rethink and redefine how we value, protect and restore nature.
David VanderZwaag participated on the IUCN delegation to the first negotiation session at the UN for a legally binding instrument on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction; New York, NY, September 4-17, 2018.
This is an article originally published on the Port of Vancouver website on June 25, 2018. Port of Vancouver is an OceanCanada Partner.
In April 2018, Cecilia Engler, PhD Candidate at the Marine & Environmental Law Institute at Dalhousie University, and member of OceanCanada’s Law and Policy WG, was appointed to the Expert Panel established under the Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fishery Resources in the South Pacific Ocean to review the objection filed by Ecuador against a conservation measure adopted by the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization (RFMO).