UN Ocean Decade endorses Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center’s ‘Ocean Voices’ as an official ‘Decade of Action’ program
The Ocean Voices program asserts that the contribution of ocean science to sustainable development is determined by people, and therefore it is critical to understand the actors involved, their culture and wellbeing, and how power dynamics and decision-making processes influence our oceans.
Read more »The Next Wave: A Generational Shift in Ocean Sustainability
Recording: Harriet Harden-Davies, Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center research fellow, joined a prestigious panel of guests at the 22nd Annual Roger Revelle Lecture on May 26. The lecture featured early career ocean professionals leading the way on the UN Ocean Decade of Science for Sustainable Development.
Read more »Video: Yáa at Wooné (Respect for All Things)
On May 5, 2021, Ocean Nexus Center co-hosted a screening of Yáa at Wooné (Respect for All Things), a documentary about the Herring Protectors of Sitka Sound. Louise Brady, a Kiks.ádi Tlingit leader featured in the film, introduced the story and answered questions. Yoshitaka Ota, the director of the Ocean Nexus Center, moderated the Q&A after the screening.
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AIS-based profiling of fishing vessels falls short as a “proof of concept” for identifying forced labour at sea
Forced labour at sea is a serious human rights violation that must be addressed with policies that consider complex social, economic and political dynamics. So when a recent research paper in PNAS (McDonald et al.) concluded that a machine learning algorithm could identify vessels that are at “high risk” of engaging in labour abuse, researchers from the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center took notice.
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Global Effort to Save Dwindling Ocean Fish Faces Moment of Truth
Deputy Director Andrés Cisneros was quoted in this article from Bloomberg. “If governments ended subsidies, more than 35 million metric tons of fish—or 12.5% of all the fish in the sea—could be restored by 2050”
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New Framework Developed to Define Complex Mangrove Fisheries
Policy makers will now have a better understanding of who relies on mangroves for their lives and livelihoods. Mangrove forests are rich and complex ecosystems that many fish – and fishers – rely on for survival. However, the current narrow definition of who is a mangrove fisher means certain groups are excluded from decision making, meaning that policies decided without their input may be misguided or even harmful to these communities.
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Behind the Paper: The key barriers for achieving a Blue Economy are social and economic, not environmental
Deputy director Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor discusses “What is holding us back from achieving equitable and sustainable ocean economies, a ‘Blue Economy’?” in a blog post in Nature.
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‘Global Fisheries Governance and Social Justice’ Online Panel April 8
Ocean Nexus director Dr. Yoshitaka Ota will be on a panel to address the intersection of fisheries governance and social justice in different contexts around the world.
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Big exposure: Geographer publishes insightful ocean research in international journals
Dr. Gerald Singh, assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, is among a team of international researchers who co-authored the article examining the potential to develop a sustainable and equitable “blue economy” for the global oceans
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Sustainable fisheries are essential but not enough to ensure well-being for the world’s fishers
A strong push for achieving biological sustainability in global fisheries, while important, is not enough to ensure the well-being of fishers and their families, according to a new paper with the collaboration of the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center in Fish and Fisheries.
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