Research summary
Sustainable ocean management involves taking a knowledge-based approach to planning and managing how we use our oceans in order to protect marine ecosystems while achieving a sustainable ocean economy. Dr. Rashid Sumila, Canada Research Chair in Interdisciplinary Ocean and Fisheries Economics, is studying the economic causes behind—and the impacts of—changes in coastal and marine ecosystems in order to support sustainable ocean management.
Sumaila is studying the effects of climate change on how shared fish stocks are managed and trying to determine how ocean deoxygenation is likely to affect biodiversity (and the people who depend on it) in the north Pacific Ocean. He and his research team are also examining the scope, magnitude and types of subsidies available to the aquaculture sector and how they may affect both the sector’s economic efficiency and the sustainability of global fisheries.