04 Sep 2015
You need not look far to find the world’s “super predator,” a term used by UVic scientists to describe how human dominance has bred an unrelenting predacious global culture that threatens nature’s balance. Research published in the 21 August 2015 edition of the journal Science by a team led by Dr. Chris Darimont, the Hakai-Raincoast […]
11 Nov 2014
In a recent paper by Villy Christensen and colleagues the work confirming the decline in larger species of fish around the world is confirmed. Once believed immutable due to their massive size and volume, today’s oceans are no longer the same oceans of our grandparents. In just a few generations, human activity has radically transformed […]
11 Jul 2014
In 1998 Daniel Pauly and co-workers published a paper in Science describing the concept of fishing down the food chain using FAO landings data. Recent and forthcoming publication of papers using ICES landings data demonstrate that fishing down the food chain in UK waters is now a reality and that its impacts are wide ranging […]