SeaAroundUs
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A research initiative at UBC and UWA led by #DanielPauly, Deng Palomares & Dirk Zeller. We assess the impact of fisheries on marine ecosystems.
2025 in Review:
Our research showed that Senegal’s peak fish catch was over 1M tonnes in the 1990s. Now it’s half that. And people are fleeing bit.ly/sausenegal
Our research showed that Senegal’s peak fish catch was over 1M tonnes in the 1990s. Now it’s half that. And people are fleeing bit.ly/sausenegal
Foreign overfishing fuels Senegal’s deadly migration crisis to Europe | Sea Around Us
Senegal’s fish are vanishing—and so are its fishers.
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January 6, 2026 at 5:34 PM
2025 in Review:
Our research showed that Senegal’s peak fish catch was over 1M tonnes in the 1990s. Now it’s half that. And people are fleeing bit.ly/sausenegal
Our research showed that Senegal’s peak fish catch was over 1M tonnes in the 1990s. Now it’s half that. And people are fleeing bit.ly/sausenegal
2025 in Review: Our research showed that Indian Ocean fish fuel global nutrition, but locals are missing out 🍽️ bit.ly/indianonutri
Indian Ocean fisheries fuel global nutrition — but the benefits are leaving the region | Sea Around Us
A new study estimates how much nutrition Indian Ocean fisheries provide and examines how these benefits align with conservation priorities.
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January 5, 2026 at 11:28 PM
2025 in Review: Our research showed that Indian Ocean fish fuel global nutrition, but locals are missing out 🍽️ bit.ly/indianonutri
Year in Review:
Our research showed that between 1960–2018, fisheries removed 4B tonnes of marine life—and over 560M tonnes of essential nutrients. 🌊
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Our research showed that between 1960–2018, fisheries removed 4B tonnes of marine life—and over 560M tonnes of essential nutrients. 🌊
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Fisheries disrupt balance of marine nutrients in countries’ Exclusive Economic Zones | Sea Around Us
Industrial fisheries have removed over 430 million tonnes of carbon, 110 million tonnes of nitrogen, and 23 million tonnes of phosphorus from countries’ EEZs.
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December 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Year in Review:
Our research showed that between 1960–2018, fisheries removed 4B tonnes of marine life—and over 560M tonnes of essential nutrients. 🌊
bit.ly/nutrientssau
Our research showed that between 1960–2018, fisheries removed 4B tonnes of marine life—and over 560M tonnes of essential nutrients. 🌊
bit.ly/nutrientssau
Research Topic in Frontiers in Marine Science open until April 17, 2026: “The Catch and Status of Fisheries in the Central Atlantic, Mediterranean and Western Indian Oceans” www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
Frontiers | The Catch and Status of Fisheries in the Central Atlantic, Mediterranean and Western Indian Oceans
The Sea Around Us, named after Rachel Carson's book of the same title, is a global research initiative at the University of British Columbia that started in ...
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December 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Research Topic in Frontiers in Marine Science open until April 17, 2026: “The Catch and Status of Fisheries in the Central Atlantic, Mediterranean and Western Indian Oceans” www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
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📑 #NewStudy by Brodie et al. develops reporting to better communicate climate and ecosystem science to fisheries management, industry, and research stakeholders.
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December 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
📑 #NewStudy by Brodie et al. develops reporting to better communicate climate and ecosystem science to fisheries management, industry, and research stakeholders.
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Year in Review: The Sea Around Us is proof that when women thrive in science, research flourishes. Let’s keep pushing for equality! 🌊👩🔬👩🏽🔬👩🏿🔬
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bit.ly/blog201sau
Women in Science - The Sea Around Us joins #AccelerateAction campaign | Sea Around Us
As of 2025, about 75 per cent of the Sea Around Us team is comprised of women and in the past 25 years, of the over 200 people from more than 40 countries who have worked for the project, 59 per cent ...
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December 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Year in Review: The Sea Around Us is proof that when women thrive in science, research flourishes. Let’s keep pushing for equality! 🌊👩🔬👩🏽🔬👩🏿🔬
bit.ly/blog201sau
bit.ly/blog201sau
This paper on forever chemicals found in #fish, recently published in Science, uses data from the Sea Around Us!
Check it out 👇
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Check it out 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Risks of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance exposure through marine fish consumption
Global food trade expansion has enriched diets worldwide but also heightened concerns about contaminant spread. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) can persist in the environment for decades, y...
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December 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
This paper on forever chemicals found in #fish, recently published in Science, uses data from the Sea Around Us!
Check it out 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Check it out 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Thank you, @environmentjournal.bsky.social, for nominating our principal investigator, Dr. Daniel Pauly! 💙🌊
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Initiative on new Nobel prize for climate gains momentum – The Environment Journal
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December 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Thank you, @environmentjournal.bsky.social, for nominating our principal investigator, Dr. Daniel Pauly! 💙🌊
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Year in Review: 🌊 The Sea Around Us and ProtectedSeas Navigator started working together to expand access to global marine protection data! 🌐
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Sea Around Us and ProtectedSeas Navigator join forces for greater ocean data transparency | Sea Around Us
The Sea Around Us initiative at the University of British Columbia and ProtectedSeas Navigator, a free, interactive map of marine regulatory information worldwide, have partnered to expand users’ acce...
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December 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Year in Review: 🌊 The Sea Around Us and ProtectedSeas Navigator started working together to expand access to global marine protection data! 🌐
bit.ly/blog200sau
bit.ly/blog200sau
Year in Review:
We honoured the legacy of W.N. Eschmeyer (1939–2024), creator of the renowned Eschmeyer’s Catalog of Fishes. A true pioneer in ichthyology. 🐟
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We honoured the legacy of W.N. Eschmeyer (1939–2024), creator of the renowned Eschmeyer’s Catalog of Fishes. A true pioneer in ichthyology. 🐟
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Remembering William N. Eschmeyer (1939 – 2024) | Sea Around Us
By Daniel Pauly, Rainer Froese and Nicolas Bailly. The Quantitative Aquatics and Sea Around Us teams lament the passing of W.N ‘Bill’ Eschmeyer (1939-2024), the founding editor and namesake of the Esc...
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December 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Year in Review:
We honoured the legacy of W.N. Eschmeyer (1939–2024), creator of the renowned Eschmeyer’s Catalog of Fishes. A true pioneer in ichthyology. 🐟
bit.ly/blog199sau
We honoured the legacy of W.N. Eschmeyer (1939–2024), creator of the renowned Eschmeyer’s Catalog of Fishes. A true pioneer in ichthyology. 🐟
bit.ly/blog199sau
Year in Review:
🐟 Big questions, jargon-free answers. Dr. Pauly’s “Ask Dr. Pauly” columns are now in one inspiring booklet.
bit.ly/blog198sau
🐟 Big questions, jargon-free answers. Dr. Pauly’s “Ask Dr. Pauly” columns are now in one inspiring booklet.
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Daniel Pauly’s answers for ocean conservation in one booklet | Sea Around Us
Oceana has just published a booklet that compiles all of the articles contributed in the past decade by the Sea Around Us PI, Dr. Daniel Pauly, to the NGO’s thrice-yearly magazine. The columns’ topics...
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December 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Year in Review:
🐟 Big questions, jargon-free answers. Dr. Pauly’s “Ask Dr. Pauly” columns are now in one inspiring booklet.
bit.ly/blog198sau
🐟 Big questions, jargon-free answers. Dr. Pauly’s “Ask Dr. Pauly” columns are now in one inspiring booklet.
bit.ly/blog198sau
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Millions of Brazilians unknowingly eat toxic, endangered shark: How Mongabay broke the story
Millions of Brazilians unknowingly eat toxic, endangered shark: How Mongabay broke the story
Mongabay senior editor Philip Jacobson joins Mongabay’s podcast to discuss a two-part investigation published this year in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center about how state governments in Brazil…
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December 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Millions of Brazilians unknowingly eat toxic, endangered shark: How Mongabay broke the story
The ocean was the star—even in a landlocked town 🌊🎬 DocumenTerre 2025 used film and conversation to explore marine threats, biodiversity and our shared responsibility to protect the sea.
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A film festival on the sea in a landlocked French town | Sea Around Us
Given that the ocean was the star of the 2025 DocumenTerre Film Festival, the Sea Around Us PI, Dr. Daniel Pauly, was named the ‘parrain’ (godfather) of the event.
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December 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The ocean was the star—even in a landlocked town 🌊🎬 DocumenTerre 2025 used film and conversation to explore marine threats, biodiversity and our shared responsibility to protect the sea.
bit.ly/blog216sau
bit.ly/blog216sau
As you plan your end-of-year giving, consider supporting the Sea Around Us. Your donation helps drive impactful, global ocean research. 🌊💙
www.seaaroundus.org/donate/
www.seaaroundus.org/donate/
Donate | Sea Around Us
The Sea Around Us depends on the support of our partners and dedicated individuals to carry out its vital work. With your help, we will continue to provide unique, global databases of marine and fresh...
www.seaaroundus.org
December 15, 2025 at 11:21 PM
As you plan your end-of-year giving, consider supporting the Sea Around Us. Your donation helps drive impactful, global ocean research. 🌊💙
www.seaaroundus.org/donate/
www.seaaroundus.org/donate/
New paper using Sea Around Us data: Shining a light on Cameroon's elasmobranch fisheries: insights from citizen science and market surveys highlight a conservation priority link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Shining a light on Cameroon's elasmobranch fisheries: insights from citizen science and market surveys highlight a conservation priority - Environmental Biology of Fishes
The conservation of Cameroon’s marine biodiversity is hindered by knowledge gaps and ineffective management, endangering both marine ecosystems and their human-dependent communities. Moreover, conduct...
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December 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
New paper using Sea Around Us data: Shining a light on Cameroon's elasmobranch fisheries: insights from citizen science and market surveys highlight a conservation priority link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A new paper expands on a 2010 Sea Around Us study and suggests that regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) haven’t done a very good job setting up systems to conserve fish stocks and broader ecosystems.
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Study finds more ‘laggards’ than ‘leaders’ among high seas fisheries managers
When a new treaty to protect biodiversity in international waters, or the high seas, takes effect in January, there’s an open question about how it will interact with the regional fisheries management...
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December 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
A new paper expands on a 2010 Sea Around Us study and suggests that regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) haven’t done a very good job setting up systems to conserve fish stocks and broader ecosystems.
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news.mongabay.com/2025/12/stud...
Far more manta and devil rays die in fisheries than previously understood, with annual deaths surpassing 259,000 individuals, a new study using Sea Around Us data shows (via @mongabay.com)
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Global manta and devil ray deaths far exceed earlier estimates: Study
Far more manta and devil rays die in fisheries than previously understood, with annual deaths surpassing 259,000 individuals, a new study has found. It suggests that fishing pressure on these slow-gro...
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December 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Far more manta and devil rays die in fisheries than previously understood, with annual deaths surpassing 259,000 individuals, a new study using Sea Around Us data shows (via @mongabay.com)
news.mongabay.com/2025/12/glob...
news.mongabay.com/2025/12/glob...
🎁💙 Santa visited the Sea Around Us! Presents ✨ Joy ✨ Lunch ✨ plus just the right amount of friendly competition. 😉
December 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
🎁💙 Santa visited the Sea Around Us! Presents ✨ Joy ✨ Lunch ✨ plus just the right amount of friendly competition. 😉
A 25-year-old fisher may think stocks are huge—but they’re only ~5% of historic levels. #shiftingbaselines
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bit.ly/blog215sau
Efforts to rebuild Hong Kong oyster reefs now on film | Sea Around Us
Pearls, aphrodisiac concoctions, and Asian sauces. When we, ‘moderns,’ think about oysters, we rarely connect them to the substrate of a city. Hong Kong and its Pearl River Delta area, as it turns out...
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December 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A 25-year-old fisher may think stocks are huge—but they’re only ~5% of historic levels. #shiftingbaselines
bit.ly/blog215sau
bit.ly/blog215sau
Hong Kong was literally built atop oyster reefs—now a new film uncovers their forgotten story.
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Efforts to rebuild Hong Kong oyster reefs now on film | Sea Around Us
Pearls, aphrodisiac concoctions, and Asian sauces. When we, ‘moderns,’ think about oysters, we rarely connect them to the substrate of a city. Hong Kong and its Pearl River Delta area, as it turns out...
bit.ly
December 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Hong Kong was literally built atop oyster reefs—now a new film uncovers their forgotten story.
bit.ly/blog215sau
bit.ly/blog215sau
Our PI, Dr. Daniel Pauly, said the debate over herring stocks on the British Columbia coast stems from “shifting baselines.”
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Legal Challenge Looming as First Nations Fight for BC’s Herring Stocks
First Nations and conservation groups are calling for an immediate herring fishery ban, but DFO insists the stocks are stable.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Our PI, Dr. Daniel Pauly, said the debate over herring stocks on the British Columbia coast stems from “shifting baselines.”
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With your help, we will continue to provide unique, global databases of marine and freshwater fisheries catches and related indicators crucial to back marine conservation efforts, including reaching the 30×30 goal.
www.seaaroundus.org/donate/
www.seaaroundus.org/donate/
Donate | Sea Around Us
The Sea Around Us depends on the support of our partners and dedicated individuals to carry out its vital work. With your help, we will continue to provide unique, global databases of marine and fresh...
www.seaaroundus.org
December 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
With your help, we will continue to provide unique, global databases of marine and freshwater fisheries catches and related indicators crucial to back marine conservation efforts, including reaching the 30×30 goal.
www.seaaroundus.org/donate/
www.seaaroundus.org/donate/
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER needed at The Ocean System Pathways (OSPs): a new scenario and simulation framework to investigate the future of the world fisheries
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December 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER needed at The Ocean System Pathways (OSPs): a new scenario and simulation framework to investigate the future of the world fisheries
www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/wp-content/u...
www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/wp-content/u...
Part of the Sea Around Us team joined Dr. Philippe Cury's lecture "Looking for Patterns & Processes in the Ocean: an obstinate quest," in celebration of his honorary doctorate granted by the University of British Columbia.
Explore his work 👉 bit.ly/obstinatenat...
Explore his work 👉 bit.ly/obstinatenat...
December 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Part of the Sea Around Us team joined Dr. Philippe Cury's lecture "Looking for Patterns & Processes in the Ocean: an obstinate quest," in celebration of his honorary doctorate granted by the University of British Columbia.
Explore his work 👉 bit.ly/obstinatenat...
Explore his work 👉 bit.ly/obstinatenat...
Le parrain du festival du film DocumenTerre sera Daniel Pauly. Figure majeure de l’écologie contemporaine, il a dénoncé les méfaits de la surpêche. Il a écrit une trentaine d’ouvrages et reçu de nombreux prix. Et il fera le voyage pour être présent au festival www.sudouest.fr/dordogne/mon...
Dordogne : avec le festival du film DocumenTerre, le cinéma plonge au fond des océans
Cette 16e édition, organisée du jeudi 27 au dimanche 30 novembre, montrera, à travers 10 films, la beauté et la diversité des océans, tout en rappelant les dangers qui les menacent
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November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Le parrain du festival du film DocumenTerre sera Daniel Pauly. Figure majeure de l’écologie contemporaine, il a dénoncé les méfaits de la surpêche. Il a écrit une trentaine d’ouvrages et reçu de nombreux prix. Et il fera le voyage pour être présent au festival www.sudouest.fr/dordogne/mon...