Day 41: Fisheries

Today you will learn from expert guest Daniel Pauly about fisheries, why it may or may not help solve climate change, how it works and what needs to still be done for it to be an effective solution to climate change.

Summary

Guest: Daniel Pauly

Dr. Daniel Pauly is a French and Canadian citizen who completed his high school and university studies in Germany; his doctorate (1979) and habilitation (1985) are in Fisheries Biology, from the University of Kiel.

After many years at the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM), in Manila, Philippines, Daniel Pauly became in 1994 Professor at the Fisheries Centre of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, of which he was the Director for 5 years (Nov. ’03-Oct. ’08). Since 1999, he is also Principal Investigator of the Sea Around Us Project (see www.seaaroundus.org), funded for 15 years by the Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia (currently by a number of foundations), and devoted to studying, documenting and promoting policies to mitigate the impact of fisheries on the world’s marine ecosystems (see AMBIO, 34: 290-295, 2007).

Daniel Pauly has supervised a large number of Master and PhD students in the Philippines, Germany, and British Columbia. Details on the projects of his current students can be obtained here.

The concepts, methods and software which Daniel Pauly (co-)developed, documented in over 1000 scientific and general-interest publications, are used throughout the world, not least as a result of his teaching a multitude of courses, and supervising students in four languages on five continents. This applies especially to the Ecopath modeling approach and software (http://sirs.agrocampus-ouest.fr/EcoBase/) and FishBase, the online encyclopedia of fishes (www.fishbase.org), the latter recently complemented by SeaLifeBase (www.sealifebase.org).

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Explain succinctly what fisheries are from first principles.

Why do fisheries help to solve climate change?

Steel man the other side. Why would fisheries NOT work to solve climate change?

Who benefits most by implementing fisheries as a solution?

Who is harmed most by implementing fisheries as a solution?

How does fisheries work as a solution to climate change?

For fisheries as a solution to work, what innovation or policy needs to be created?

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Additional Resources

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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Top Skills To Learn

Our guest recommends learning the following skills:

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Activity

Activity: Marine Protected Area Proposal

Description: Design a proposal for establishing a marine protected area that benefits both fish populations and the overall marine ecosystem. Outline the ecological and economic rationale for your proposal.

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