Videos

Rashid discusses the open letter asking the WTO to ban harmful fisheries subsidies.

The webinar looked at the science behind the ocean economy and the rapidly developing scientific and policy attention associated to the ocean. It addressed the challenges with balancing conservation and use of ocean resources in a way that ensures human well-being and fairness – topics of central relevance for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.

This talk summarizes and synthesizes the existing literature on each of three categories of trade in seafood, the resulting flow of trade, and provide insights on trade impacts, positively or negatively, on the livelihoods and food security of people living in developing countries.

This is a recording of a webinar hosted by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) on 10 June, 2020, that examined how to mobilise public and private finance to enable the transition to a sustainable and inclusive blue economy.

Prof. Sumaila is one of the world's most innovative researchers on the future of the oceans, integrating the social, economic and fisheries sciences to build novel pathways towards sustainable fisheries. His work has challenged today's approaches to marine governance, generating exciting new ways of thinking about our relationship to the marine biosphere, such as protecting the high seas as a "fish bank" for the world and using "intergeneration discount rates" for natural resource projects.

Rashid Sumaila and his OceanCanada Partnership are working to provide policy makers with the best information possible to make informed decisions for Canada's oceans.

This is the first video produced by the Community Conservation Research Network (CCRN). It focuses on the experiences of two communities, the Eastport Peninsula in Canada and Koh Pitak in Thailand. The video highlights community efforts to restore and safeguard local ecosystems and diversify economies, making the environment and community livelihoods more sustainable for current and future generations.

This is the second animation video produced by the Community Conservation Research Network (CCRN). The 5-minute video focuses on ingredients of success for local communities engaged in environmental conservation, to make their communities, and their livelihoods, more sustainable for current and future generations.

Coastal Communities… At the Ready is a new film that explores how coastal communities are preparing for, and responding to, a range of climate change impacts and other hazards hitting the coast. That includes everything from hurricanes and other extreme weather, to floods and erosion, to tsunamis and oil spills.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) was tasked with eliminating overfishing fisheries subsidies way back in 2001. This is yet to be accomplished. To support the ongoing WTO negotiations, the Fisheries Economics Research Unit at UBC has been providing fisheries subsidies data and analysis to the global community since the early 2000s. Dr. Rashid Sumaila will present his latest findings and describe the state of play in the struggle to discipline harmful subsidies.

"Rashid Sumaila has some groundbreaking and controversial ideas on how we can prevent overfishing of important fish stocks, shield vulnerable species and protect our oceans." — Vancouver Sun

Public Forum 2019 - Session 7 - 2020 Vision: How Successful Conclusion of Fisheries Subsidies Negotiations Can Demonstrate that the WTO is Adapting to a Changing World.

The EU is on its way to reintroduce harmful fisheries subsidies that were banned +15 years ago, and will fuel overfishing & speed up the destruction of our already deteriorating sea. RISE FOR OUR OCEAN! Tell the EU to stop wasting money!

Rashid Sumaila discusses a range of topics with Afedzi Abdullah of Ghana News Agency.

On 13-15 May 2019, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO convened for the 1st Global Planning Meeting in preparation for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. The meeting took place in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Dr. Sumaila is introduced at 7h21m)

Streamed on Facebook Live, Dr. Rashid Sumaila talks at Joyce Murray's MP Breakfast Connections, discussing how to facilitate a sustainable marine economy.

Prior to the European Parliament plenary vote on the next European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), Prof. U. Rashid Sumaila urges MEPs to reject the re-introduction of harmful fishing aids and to adopt measures that will protect marine ecosystems, strengthen fisheries management and control, and improve knowledge of the marine environment.

Dr. Rashid Sumaila and Dr. William Cheung discuss the Benefits of the Paris Agreement to ocean life, economies, and people with AAAS.

The Beyond Climate film, in part funded by OceanCanada, premieres Friday, October 26, 2018, at the Planet In Focus film festival.

This short video highlights the work of OCP students and postdoctoral researchers who are helping to achieve these goals.

Produced by Natalie Baird, HQP in the Knowledge Mobilization Working Group, at University of Manitoba, and the Attagoyuk Ilisavik students of Pangnirtung, Nunavut.

Natalie Ban – OceanCanada Pacific Region Working Group Co-Lead, talks about the importance of research in ocean sustainability for coastal communities.

Dr. U. Rashid Sumaila discusses: Conservation economics: Close the high seas to fishing and boost global food security, equality, at Fisheries Centre Seminar, UBC, Feb 27th 2015

It's everywhere. What can we do? Full series of video clips produced by our partner, OceanWise.

Watch the live chat from the event at The University of British Columbia's Liu Institute: "Coastal Community Action: Then and Now"

Watch the live chat from the event at Vancouver Aquarium: "Charting a Sustainable Course – Exploring Canada's Fisheries"

Tribal Canoe Journeys is an annual Indigenous cultural gathering on the Northwest Pacific Coast.

Part of the Fall 2017 ESS Lecture Series at the College of Sustainability at Dalhousie University. Co-hosted by Afishionado Fishmongers and the OceanCanada Partnership.

Natalie Baird, OceanCanada Master's student at the University of Manitoba, was one of the 25 finalists in the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's 2017 Storytellers challenge.

Dr. Rashid Sumaila presenting to the 2016 Our Ocean Conference: Fisheries for the Future. Moderator: Rear Admiral Timothy Gallaudet Oceanographer and Navigator, United States Navy.

Interview with Dr. David VanderZwaag, co-lead of the Law and Policy Working Group.

Interview with Rosemary Ommer, Chair of the OceanCanada Advisory Board.