By Vatosoa Rakotondrazafy, Madagascar
Full immersion in the field of small-scale fisheries for three days, networking with worldwide fisheries experts, coming across old friends from the University of British Columbia, and making new friends, this is what the Centre for Maritime Research (MARE) conference 2015 was all about for me. I attended this conference in Amsterdam from June 24 to 26.
William Cheung and Yoshitaka Ota, Co-Directors of the Nereus Program, recently attended the Our Common Future under Climate Change conference in Paris to present findings from the program on the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems and fisheries. The conference, held from July 7 to 10, saw nearly 2000 participants from 100 countries come together to discuss all aspects of scientific knowledge on climate change.
R. Caddell, W.Cheung, Y.Ota and R. Sumaila will present papers on fisheries under climate change
On June 26, William Cheung and Yoshitaka Ota presented their work on ocean fisheries, climate change and indigenous fisheries at Dr Shinichi Ito Lab (atmosphere and ocean research institute) at…
A report entitled “Predicting Future Oceans: Climate Change, Oceans & Fisheries” newly released by the Nereus program, an international interdisciplinary research program aimed at predicting future oceans, suggests that future seafood supply in the world will be substantially altered by climate change, overfishing and habitat destruction if we do not take actions.
Yoshi Ota and Andres Cisneros are organising a session on Indigenous Fisheries in collaboration with Too Big To Ignore, in Amsterdam
Yoshi Ota and Andres Cisneros-Montemayor will present at The indigenous Small Scale Fisheries Meeting
Yoshi Ota, Andre Boustany and Quentin Hanich will attend Cooking for Solution Conference organised by Monterey Bay Aquarium
Yoshi Ota, Nereus Program Co-Director at the University of British Columbia, has contributed a chapter in a book titled Ceccaldi et al (ed) Marine Productivity: Perturbations and Resilience of Socio-Ecosystems….
