Eminent #UBCOceans fisheries economist @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social attended and spoke at the International Seabed Authority plenary. @solvingfcb.org

“I think the world realised we needed to do something. As we deplete #coastal waters, where do people go? Suddenly we realised the #highseas are also in trouble,” says @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social dialogue.earth/en/ocean/wha... @solvingfcb.org @ubcsppga.bsky.social @dialogueearth.bsky.social

#SolvingFCB’s Dr. William Cheung & Aleah Wong join #UNOC2025 Ocean Action Panel 8 (530-645PM) as small-scale fishers share challenges, defend rights-based approaches & fight for justice, decent work & #FoodSecurity >>> unoc.solvingfcb.org#blue #SmallScaleFishers #SDG14 #SolvingFCB

Today at #UNOC3: #SolvingFCB's presented "Ocean & Climate: sustainable development" as part of Let’s talk about ocean & climate: Actions for SDG 14, sharing ocean-climate solutions and sustainable development strategies. #SDG14 @ubcoceans.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca #UNOC2025

#UBCOceans folk are at #UNOC3 #UNOceanConference #UNOC2025 in force! Keep en eye out for #WilliamCheung ‪@ubccoru .bsky.social‬ & @solvingfcb.org @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social of @solvingfcb.org @amandavincent.bsky.social @projectseahorse.bsky.social . #UBCexcellence

Dr. William Cheung has a poster at One Ocean Science Congress in Nice, France on June 3! See "Scientific & technical innovations to revolutionize knowledge production for the conservation & management of migratory & straddling biodiversity in "La Baleine", P457 @solvingfcb.org

As part of UNOC, @solvingfcb.org is hosting a PUBLIC side event! Small but Powerful: harnessing the diversity of small-scale fisheries to solve the sustainability challenges at the food-climate-biodiversity nexus, takes place on June 11, 2025 @ 8:15 am. More info: oceans.ubc.ca/2025-un-ocea...

New Paper: #SolvingFCB Co-Director @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social and Sebastian Villasante examine how rapid Blue Economy growth is increasing conflicts over ocean space/resources, proposing strategies to ease tensions and promote equitable ocean governance www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

@drrashidsumaila.bsky.social says the costs of managing environmental damage caused by deep-sea mining will likely be astronomical. “Sometimes you just have to leave things alone.” www.fastcompany.com/91320702/the... @fastcompany.com @solvingfcb.org

Did you catch Episode 2 of the #SolvingFCB Podcast? Host Duncan Murray explores how climate change, overfishing & runoff threaten Costa Rica’s Gulf of Nicoya. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2M0X... Find out more: solvingfcb.org/podcast/ @ubcoceans.bsky.social #GulfOfNicoya #SustainableFishing

Check out Episode 1 of the #SolvingFCB Podcast! Work/Learn Student Duncan Murray speaks with Dr. William Cheung of @ubcoceans.bsky.social Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/02jm... Or Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... Or check it out on our website: solvingfcb.org/podcast/

#SolvingFCB’s @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social will co-chair the @weforum.org Global Future Council on the Regenerative Blue Economy! The group will drive sustainable ocean growth & conservation. With the ocean economy set to top $3T by 2030, their work is key for climate resilience & marine innovation.

#SolvingFCB Co-PI @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social is presenting today as part of ʻĀkoʻakoʻa & Hōkūleʻa 50th Anniversary, at the Hawai’i convention centre in Honolulu. The title of his presentation is "Reimagining ocean economics".

#Geoduck clams can cost up to $30/lb,with 90% of BC's $55M industry reliant on China. Could a slowing Chinese economy threaten the market? #SolvingFCB Co-PI @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social weighs in via @businessinsider.com: youtu.be/dTXT7qORWJo @ubcoceans.bsky.social

🌊 The ocean covers 70% of Earth, generates half our oxygen, and absorbs 25% of CO₂—but it's under threat. The Earth Commission is defining the first-ever safe & just boundaries to protect marine ecosystems while ensuring social equity. Learn more: earthcommission.org/news/our-blu... #ClimateAction

#SolvingFCB Article: Nature-Inclusive Agriculture and the Effort to Solve the Netherlands’ Food Production Dilemma solvingfcb.org/netherlands/... by Work/Learn student Duncan Murray w/ assistance from @w-u-r.bsky.social PhD Student Alfred Paarlberg @ubcoceans.bsky.social @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social

#SolvingFCB Director Dr. William Cheung is presenting the Ronald O. Ball lecture at @ualberta.bsky.social: Making Waves: Fisheries and Aquaculture in the Face of Extreme Events and Irreversible Climate Impacts. Date: Mar. 11, 2025; Time: 3:30-4:30 PM www.ualberta.ca/en/events/ag...

Insights from the 2025 #SolvingFCB Bi-Annual Meeting & Workshop, held at the University of Costa Rica, San José, Feb 10-13 solvingfcb.org/conferences/... @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social @ubcoceans.bsky.social #FoodSecurity #ClimateChange #Biodiversity

Lá última keynote speaker tel taller de @solvingfcb.bsky.social en #CostaRica, la increíble Fresia Villalobos de #Marviva

#SolvingFCB Co-Director @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social received the King Charles III Commemoration Medal at a ceremony held on Sunday, March 2, 2025. Congratulations, Rashid! oceans.ubc.ca/2025/03/03/k... @ubcoceans.bsky.social @coastmanafrica.bsky.social

Fresia Villalobos of #Marviva #CostaRica is giving the final #SolvingFCB Keynote presentation today at 13:30(CST)/11:30(PST): "Balancing Conservation and Livelihoods: Lessons Learned from the Gulf of Nicoya" & will be streamed live at: youtube.com/@WebTVUCR www.facebook.com/escueladegeo...

Always great to attend a keynote by Rashid Sumaila who is setting the tone for ambitious thinking across the food-climate-biodiv nexus with a focus on ocean economics #infinityfish 🎣 🐟 🌊 for our @solvingfcb.bsky.social project meeting in 🇨🇷 Let’s NOT take everything, from everywhere all at once

Day 4 of the #SolvingFCB conference begins with Cross-project discussion, modelling workshop, integrative/synthesis group planning, and a final Keynote from Fresia Villalobos of Marviva Costa Rica. Many updates to follow; follow us on x.com/SolvingFCB, and solvingfcb.org. @ubcoceans.bsky.social #UCR

#SolvingFCB's @laurap18.bsky.social will be presenting the Day 2 Keynote: Operationalising the Nature Futures Framework for improved anticipatory governance in diverse contexts. This will be streamed live today at 13:30PM (CST)/11:30(PST): www.youtube.com/@WebTVUCR & www.facebook.com/escueladegeo...

Off we go! Rashid Sumaila is opening the @solvingfcb.bsky.social meeting at the #UCR

Today is the start of the 2nd #Solving-FCB Conference. This time, over 30 of our finest (and a further 20 or so remotely) will meet in Costa Rica for cross-project discussions, presentations, workshops, discuss case study progress and goals, and much more. Stay tuned for updates throughout the week!

Scientists have discovered that human language and #whale songs have remarkable similarities in the way they are segmented and structured. www.abc.net.au/news/science... via @abcnewsbot.bsky.social

WEBINAR: Join #SolvingFCB's Dr. Andrea Marais-Potgieter on: Expanding Stakeholders: Including Non-Human Species in Futures Thinking incommonpodcast.org/podcast/pecs...

RESEARCH: Governance and resilience as entry points for transforming food systems in the countdown to 2030. Coauthored by @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social . www.nature.com/articles/s43... via @naturefood.bsky.social @solvingfcb.bsky.social

The Gulf of Nicoya, Illegal Fishing, and the Branch of Science at the Centre of Everything: solvingfcb.org/costa-rica/t... @ubcoceans.bsky.social @ubccoru.bsky.social @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social

RESEARCH: Chapter 18 - Climate change impacts on marine #fish ecology and #fisheries. Co-authored by Dr. William Cheung @solvingfcb.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

RESEARCH: Detecting, Attributing, and Projecting Global Marine Ecosystem and Fisheries Change: FishMIP 2.0. Co-authored by @julianop.bsky.social #WilliamCheung @ubccoru.bsky.social @solvingfcb.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... #openaccess

RESEARCH: Hope or Despair Revisited: Assessing Progress and New Challenges in Global Fisheries. By #WilliamCheung, @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social @solvingfcb.bsky.social #DanielPauly @seaaroundus.org onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #OpenAccess

Making the case for #genderinclusive #fisheries governance, policies and climate adaptation. By Ayodele Oloko, Louise Teh, Philippe Le Billon, William Cheung, Sarah Harper, and RashidSumaila @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social @ubcoceans.bsky.social solvingfcb.org/publications...

William Cheung is confronting the inequities of #ocean #conservation through collective action via @ubyssey.ca ubyssey.ca/features/wil... @solvingfcb.bsky.social @ubccoru.bsky.social

#SolvingFCB's Dr. Laura Pereira will be speaking at the WWF 2024 Lovejoy Symposium, where leading experts will convene to explore the state of knowledge on tipping points & how social change can be harnessed to reduce nature loss and address the climate crisis. www.worldwildlife.org/pages/2024-l...

Solving-FCB's Dr. Rashid Sumaila examines the complex interplay between fisheries, climate change, and global trade, particularly focusing on developing countries: tessforum.org/latest/fishe...

Congratulations to: Dr. William Cheung @ubccoru.bsky.social Dr. Daniel Pauly @seaaroundus.bsky.social Dr. Rashid Sumaila and Dr. Nathan Bennett (Adjunct faculty) who were named as 2024 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate

Dr. William Cheung, @UBC professor and Director of #UBCOceans, has won the prestigious A. G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in Marine Science! @ubccoru.bsky.social @SolvingFCB @ubcscience