Dr. Daniel Pauly participates in White House science forum

October 5, 2015October 5, 2015Featured

Dr. Daniel Pauly at a White House event on citizen science.

Last week Dr. Daniel Pauly was invited to the White House to participate in a forum on citizen science and crowdsourcing.

The event, held on September 30, 2015, and hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and the Domestic Policy Council, aimed to “celebrate the successes of citizen science and crowdsourcing,” and “raise awareness of the benefits these innovative approaches can deliver,” according to the White House website.

Dr. Pauly was there to discuss FishBase, the global database of fish he co-founded in the 1990s that is now the largest and most accessed online database for fish in the world. Each month it receives 50 million “hits” from over half a million unique viewers.

While experts initiated the database, it functions, in large part, from the input of thousands of citizen users.

“Much of the data sets in FishBase were initiated by communities from the bottom up, and then later, were picked up by academics,” said Dr. Pauly in an interview.

FishBase includes descriptions of over 33,000 species, and over 300,000 common names in almost 300 languages, 55,300 pictures, and references to 51,600 works in the scientific literature.

“FishBase has gathered a lot of data from its users—from photos, common names, forums and blogs. There is a huge openness of the database, and it is going to increase” said Dr. Pauly.

The forum, which was titled “Open Science and Innovation: Of the people, by the people, for the people,” highlighted the work of several other innovative citizen science endeavours.

For instance, 28,000 astronomy enthusiasts have made 1.4 million classifications of potential interstellar debris using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer; and 5,500 active participants have helped record over 1.5 million observations related to plants and animals for the USA National Phenology Network, leading to contributions in 17 peer-reviewed publications.

“Citizen science and crowdsourcing projects can enhance scientific research and address societal needs, while drawing on previously underutilized resources,” said the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, John P. Holdren, in a memorandum.

Drawing on his experience with FishBase, Dr. Pauly agrees. “Governments are realizing they cannot progress in many areas without citizen participation. The idea of citizen science is not only compatible with democracy and the environmental sciences; it is essential for them,” he said.

A complete video of the event can be found here.

Links to Facebook pages for FishBase, and its partner organization SeaLifeBase.

New app to simplify fisheries data collection

September 11, 2015September 14, 2015Featured

Dr. Box presents the Fish Landing app to a workshop at the FishBase symposium in the Philippines. The workshop was co-sponsored by Oceana Philippines, the Philippine (), and Sea Around Us.

Dr. Box from the Smithsonian Institution presents the Fish Landing app during a workshop at the FishBase symposium in the Philippines associated with the 25th and 10th year anniversaries of FishBase and SeaLifeBase (Sea Around Us partners). The workshop was co-sponsored by the FishBase Information and Research Group (FIN), Oceana-Philippines, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) of the Philippine Department of Agriculture, and the Sea Around Us.

On the northern coast of Honduras local fishers noticed the amount of fish they caught was decreasing year after year. What’s more, it was becoming increasingly difficult to catch the amount of fish they needed to make a living.

Compounding their plight was the fact that because their catch went to local buyers and then on to domestic markets—no real catch data were available. Without these data, it is incredibly difficult to manage a sustainable fishery.

A new app could help change this. The Fish Landing app helps local buyers track the species and size of fish caught, fishing spots frequently used, and the profiles of local fishers.

The app was developed by a team of researchers from the Center of Marine Studies (CEM), and the Smithsonian Institution, led by Dr. Stephen Box from the Smithsonian.

“The wealth of data which will be collected using these tools will greatly contribute to data analysis, and can be a primary basis for any plans related to fisheries management and sustainability,” said Dr. Box at the workshop, which was organized and moderated by Dr. Deng Palomares.

The researchers initially used a paper-based system to try and track catch data, where fishers, upon returning from the ocean, would fill out forms detailing the number and species of fish they caught. At the end of each month these papers were given to researches who then laboriously digitized and analyzed the data. While relatively effective for some small communities, on a larger scale it was highly inefficient.

The Fish Landing app helps to streamline this process. Local buyers—who receive the majority of fish from the fishers—use an Android phone or iPad to keep track of the data. Through its picture-based operation system the app is easy to use.

But why would buyers want to participate? The app is a one-stop shop for business purposes, where buyers can track fish caught, money earned and paid, and who their clients are. Fishers also get more precise information about what and how much they catch and earn, and governments are given data that can be used for fisheries statistics. Data packages to be shared with governments or management agencies can be customized and adjusted to local needs and sensitivities.

Furthermore, governments will finally be able to understand the large role that small-scale fishers play in contributing to the economy and food security.

At the workshop where Dr. Box presented the Fish Landing app, two other closely-associated tools were also presented. These included a decentralized registration system that easily and rapidly creates “fisher identity cards.” Often, these are the only pieces of ID that the fishers possess.

The other tool is an onboard, cheap, self-contained, and solar powered GPS system that will help in understanding the amount of time fishers spend in certain waters, the competition for fishing grounds among fishers, and the seasonal patterns in seascape use, among a suite of other factors.

Daniel Pauly, Principal Investigator of the Sea Around Us, believes these tools together could transform the accumulation of fisheries data.

“These three items could revolutionize data acquisition for and by artisanal fishers in developing countries, including the Philippines where the presentation by Dr. Stephen Box generated considerable interest,” he said.

Dirk Zeller, Senior Scientist of the Sea Around Us, thinks these tools are a state of the art approach that not only improve data collection but also the management of small-scale fisheries, which recently received clear recognition through an endorsement by the Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture (COFI), of the FAO’s Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication.

“These tools and their associated direct and easy access to the data generated, will also empower local communities in their engagement in small-scale fisheries management,” he said.

The app and related tools are also being tested in Myanmar. Interest from the Philippine government and some NGOs expressed at the workshop may lead to the use of the fisheries app package, at least in some pilot areas. Dr. Mary Ann Bimbao (Executive Director of FIN) and Dr. Deng Palomares (Senior Scientist of the Sea Around Us) are in follow-up discussions with some members of the BFAR and Oceana-Philippines for future work.

Daniel Pauly participates in international fishing documentary

August 13, 2015September 14, 2015Featured

Daniel Pauly on set in Newfoundland, Canada. Photo credit: Rick Stanley

Daniel Pauly recently returned from Newfoundland, Canada, where he was working on an international fishing documentary.

The film, produced by the Khaled bin Sultan Living Ocean Foundation near Washington D.C., will be filmed in five locations including Honduras, South America, the U.S., Bahamas, Senegal, Africa, — and, of course, Newfoundland, Canada.

As Pauly explains, the film explores the role of small-boat fishermen and how they contribute to the economy.

“There is a lack of awareness from the government,” he says. “They don’t understand how these fisherman fit into the economy, and so they tend to favour bigger fishing companies.”

Pauly is the film’s on-camera investigator who also serves as link between the countries.

The film is currently in production and is aiming for release in spring 2016.

Sea Around Us attends meeting to support conservation assessment for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean

July 2, 2015July 2, 2015Featured

A senior researcher with the Sea Around Us recently attended a three-day meeting earlier this month to discuss conservation of biodiversity with Antarctic experts in Monaco.

Deng Palomares, who recently worked on an Antarctic report for the Sea Around Us, said the meeting was an important step in identifying and assuring that Antarctic research focuses on the gaps in current data.

“It was a very successful endeavour seeing that the experts who participated in the assessment came from a multidisciplinary background,” Palomares said. “One of the most significant contributions of those three days is the engagement promised by these experts to continue their work in the Antarctic.”

Co-organized by the Government of the Principality of Monaco, the Centre Scientifique de Monaco, SCAR, and Monash University, the meeting was meant to assess whether the conservation of the biodiversity of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean is meeting the targets of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020.

The meeting also aimed to provide guidance for action that can effectively help deliver further conservation successes for the regions. Another goal was to identify key areas for work and indicators to help guide that work, which resulted in the Antarctica and the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020: The Monaco Assessment.

“The initial expert assessment indicates a biodiversity outlook for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean which is no better than that for the rest of the globe,” said professor Steven Chown of Monash University, who co-organized the meeting.

HSH Prince Albert II of Manaco, who closed the meeting June 10, emphasized that activity in the Antarctic region — including not only fishing and tourism, but also some scientific activities — has drastically increased.

“I am convinced that common action from all countries and parties, can improve the situation for the better,” HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco noted. “I can assure you that my Government and my Foundation will make every effort possible to ensure that science continues to prevail in this land with international cooperation”

Organizers and attendees left feeling hopeful that there will be effective action over the next five years to dramatically improve the state of biodiversity in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.

You can read more on The Monaco Assessment here

New research reveals population trends for world seabirds

June 16, 2015June 16, 2015Featured

A Rhinoceros Auklet (seabird) eating sandlance (Photo: Daniel Donnecke)

New Sea Around Us research has found drastic decline in the monitored portion of the global seabird population.

The paper, published in PLoS ONE, reports that the monitored portion of the global seabird population decreased overall by 69.7 per cent between 1950 and 2010.

According to Michelle Paleczny, a lead author of the paper, and recent graduate of the zoology program at UBC, these findings likely reflect a global trend because of the large and representative sample. A decline this drastic can cause changes in island and marine ecosystems in which seabirds play a variety of vital roles.

“Decline in seabird abundance stands to disrupt natural processes in island and marine ecosystems in which seabirds play an important role — by acting as predators, scavengers, cross-ecosystem nutrient subsidizers, and ecosystem engineers,” Paleczny says.

In order to investigate global patterns of seabird population data, the researchers assembled a global database of seabird population size records and applied multivariate autoregressive state-space (MARSS) modeling to estimate the global path of all seabird populations with sufficient data. They obtained data from primary sources including journal articles, books, and unpublished reports.

Several human activities are known to threaten seabird populations, including entanglement in fishing gear, overfishing of food sources, climate change, pollution, disturbance, direct exploitation, development, energy production, and introduced species. Seabird populations are strongly affected by threats to marine and coastal ecosystems, and can indicate the status of marine ecosystem health.

“Knowing this information helps us to measure and assess the overall effect that human activities and threats have had on seabirds and marine ecosystems over time,” Paleczny explains.

You can read the full report here

Recreational fishing accounts for half of all fish caught in The Bahamas

June 2, 2015June 3, 2015Featured

By: The PEW Charitable Trusts

Tourist fishing is big business in The Bahamas, but exactly how big was not known until now.

Scientists with the Sea Around Us— a scientific initiative at the University of British Columbia supported by The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts—conducted a catch reconstruction, reviewing a range of data sources to estimate unreported catch. They found that recreational anglers landed about 8,000 metric tons a year over the past 60 years—approximately half of all fish caught in the country. This more accurate estimate may allow the government to better protect the local food supply.

“We depend heavily on tourism, but it can be a double-edged sword,” says Nicola Smith, a marine ecologist from Nassau and a doctoral candidate at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. “You could get into serious ethical issues if the majority of the natural resource needed for sustenance is diverted for tourism and not being closely monitored.”

In The Bahamas, no one is keeping regular count of all the fish that tourists catch at sea or eat in restaurants. The government tracks only large-scale commercial catch, a common practice in many countries because commercial fishing is often considered more important to the local and national economies and because small-scale operations can be difficult to monitor. This limitation largely excludes categories such as artisanal, recreational, subsistence, and illegal fishing, as well as discards—fish that are caught and thrown away—and masks the true extent of fishing worldwide.

“The government is not systematically counting any of it, despite its importance for tourism,” Smith says. “The legislation to monitor and regulate recreational fishing has lagged behind the advertising.”

As the lead author of the Sea Around Us study, co-authored by Dirk Zeller of UBC, Smith is looking at the bigger picture. Her analysis worked to “reconstruct” the catch by all fisheries sectors in The Bahamas from 1950 through 2010 as part of a global project focused on identifying total fish catch, including previously uncounted data from many countries and spanning several decades.

Catch reconstruction is based on the idea that some catch information exists outside official fishery statistics and that it can be pulled together to produce a more complete picture of the catch. In the case of The Bahamas, Smith estimated catch by subsistence fishers using population data and a conservative assumption of per-capita consumption. She estimated how much fish the tourists were landing by combining catch limits with data from government tourism surveys.

Another category of catch proved especially difficult to estimate: small-scale commercial fishing. Fishermen in this sector sell much of their catch directly to restaurants rather than to processing plants, which are monitored by the government. Smith interviewed fishers and hotel purchasing managers and found that it was common for artisanal fishers to moor at a dock to sell fish directly to a hotel restaurant. It remains unclear what proportion of the country’s entire catch can be attributed to this practice. For this study, the researchers conducted a survey to estimate per-visitor fish consumption, then calculated total catch using hotel room occupancy data.

What’s the catch?

The reconstruction showed that the total catch in the past six decades was about 885,000 metric tons, more than double the official estimate of 321,000 metric tons. The research also produced more detailed estimates of catch for artisanal, recreational, and subsistence fishing (see details in this PDF) .

This information could be useful for managers as they monitor the country’s fisheries and try to ensure that tourists and residents have fish to eat. More results from catch reconstruction, including global catch estimates, will be available later in 2015.

New data on reported and unreported marine catches now available online

May 27, 2015May 27, 2015Featured

Researchers with UBC’s Sea Around Us project have launched a new web platform at www.seaaroundus.org that provides the first comprehensive coverage of both reported and unreported fish caught by every country in the world.

It reveals that official catch reports considerably underestimate actual catches around the world. For example, researchers found there was considerable unreported foreign fishing between 1950 and the early 1970s on Canada’s East coast. In fact, more than half of fish caught were unreported at one point. Much of this ‘catch’ consisted of so-called discards.

UBC professor Daniel Pauly and Dirk Zeller plan to publish a global estimate of fisheries catch in a peer-reviewed paper.

“The new Sea Around Us data have significant global scope and are long awaited by many groups worldwide,” said Zeller, senior researcher and project manager for Sea Around Us. “Accurate estimates are important for policy makers and fisheries managers to make economical and sustainable decisions about our fishing policies and fisheries management.”

The new data combine estimates of unreported catches — determined through extensive literature searches, consultation with local experts, and calculation of discarded fish — with officially reported data for small and large-scale fisheries for every country. The data emerged from a decade-long catch reconstruction project.

“We know these data will have major global impacts and now they are accessible in a visual, simplified and comprehensive way,” Pauly said.

Accurate catch data provide important insights into fisheries, fish populations and underlying ecosystems, and such data can have economic impacts.

The Sea Around Us is currently funded by The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. This is the first time the project has released new data in over five years. It can be accessed at www.seaaroundus.org

BACKGROUND

About UBC’S Sea Around Us
The Sea Around Us was initiated in 1999, and aims to provide integrated analyses of the impacts of fisheries on marine ecosystems, and to devise policies that can mitigate and reverse harmful trends while ensuring the social and economic benefits of sustainable fisheries. Sea Around Us has assembled global databases of catches, distributions of fished marine species, countries’ fishing access agreements, ex-vessel prices, marine protected areas and other data – all available online.

Sea Around Us is a long-standing collaboration between the University of British
Columbia and The Pew Charitable Trusts, and since 2014 is supported by The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.

About The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
Founded in 1988, the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation is dedicated to transforming lives and strengthening communities by fostering innovation, creating knowledge and promoting social progress. The Sea Around Us program is another example of how the Foundation supports the use data and technology to inform conservation priorities and actions.

View this press release on UBC News here

Daniel Pauly wins prestigious Peter Benchley Ocean Award

May 24, 2015May 26, 2015Featured

The Sea Around Us’ principal investigator Daniel Pauly is a winner of the prestigious Peter Benchley Ocean Award for “Excellence in Science.”

Pauly accepted the award on May 14 at the eighth annual awards ceremony at the Carnegie Institution of Science in Washington D.C.

The awards team noted Pauly has become a world leader in identifying overfishing as a threat to marine ecosystems and global food security — and that he’s an outspoken advocate for taking corrective action.

“Since I am a marine biologist and fisheries scientist, this means that throughout my career, I have tried to create concepts, models, software and databases that enable colleagues to do their work more effectively,” Pauly said in his acceptance speech.

The Peter Benchley Ocean Awards acknowledge outstanding achievement, and the only major awards program dedicated to recognizing excellence in marine conservation solutions across a wide range of sectors.

Other winners this year included The Economist, Secretary of State John Kerry, and Prince Albert II of Monaco.

Sea Around Us collaborates with West Africa on catch reconstructions

January 26, 2015February 16, 2015Featured

Sea Around Us recently announced its collaboration with West African countries on catch reconstructions through the West African Regional Marine and Coastal Conservation Partnership (PRCM).

Daniel Pauly, principal investigator of the Sea Around Us, said his team is keen to work with stakeholders in the coastal zone in the order to ensure catch reconstruction data is accurate.

“We want to ensure our data reflects reality,” Pauly said. “In order for this to be successful, there needs to be a joint effort with all stakeholders.”

Other reasons behind the collaboration are to help formulate policies, to assist in the design of fisheries data acquisition schemes that can be implemented locally, and to facilitate research partnerships.

For more information click here

Daniel Pauly talks to Juliet Eilperin about the future of oceans and fisheries

December 22, 2014December 24, 2014Featured

Daniel Pauly talking to Juliet Eilperin in Washington, D.C.

Daniel Pauly and Juliet Eilperin in Washington, D.C.

On December 15, in Washington D.C., The Pew Charitable Trusts hosted a conversation between Sea Around Us’ Daniel Pauly and Juliet Eilperin, a White House correspondent for The Washington Post. The event marked a 15-year partnership between Pew and Sea Around Us.

Before her role as White House correspondent, Eilperin spent eight years as the national reporter for environmental science, policy and politics. At the event, she talked to Pauly about his research, and his contributions to science, and his critical approach to the exploitation of fisheries across the globe.

After his conversation with Eilperin, Pauly took questions from audience members about academic fisheries research, aquaculture and warming oceans.

If you missed the event, you can watch a the full video here

Sea Around US receives $2.6 million grant from The Paul G. Allen Foundation to improve data on world fisheries

August 20, 2014May 26, 2015Featured

The University of British Columbia’s Sea Around Us project has received $2.6 million (U.S.) from The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation to provide African and Asian countries with more accurate and comprehensive fisheries data to help them better analyze and support their ocean resources and local economies.

“This generous support will help UBC fisheries researchers work with countries to better understand the industry’s impact on marine ecosystems and its social and economic benefits,” UBC President Arvind Gupta said. “The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation is giving our researchers an exceptional opportunity to work with global communities.”

The project, led by UBC Fisheries Centre Professors Daniel Pauly and Dirk Zeller, will provide comprehensive catch data and data collection methods to policy-makers and nongovernmental organizations working with countries in West Africa, East Africa, the Arab world and South Asia.

Researchers will help countries use this data to address national policies related to four main problem areas:

Increased public transparency of access agreements for foreign vessels to fish in a country’s waters;
Improving inadequate methods for recording or estimating fish catches;
Improving poor policy and management environments for local small-scale fisheries; and
Illegal fishing by foreign fleets.

“This project is significant for the global fisheries community,” Pauly said. “The data collected will help governments make informed national policy decisions by balancing economic growth with resource preservation.”

Sea Around Us started this project June 1, 2014, and it will run to June 1, 2016. The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation’s funding will also support FishBase, the Philippines-based research partner of Sea Around Us, which aims to create the largest and most extensively accessed online database about fishes on the web.

You can read the full press release here

Study finds fish catches in Panama vastly under-reported

July 8, 2014July 9, 2014Featured

New Sea Around Us research estimates Panama’s total fish catches were vastly under-reported — by almost 40 per cent — between 1950 and 2010.

The recent study, led by Sea Around Us’ Sarah Harper and co-authored by Kyrstn Zylich, Dirk Zeller and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute’s Héctor Guzmán, was published in Marine Fisheries Review’s most recent issue.

Panamanian artisanal fisher cleaning his daily catch

The research not only found a high number of fish — including tuna, shellfish and shark — taken from Panama’s waters was unaccounted for, but it also revealed data deficiencies.

“Fisheries catch data collection, as is the case in many countries, focus mainly on large-scale operations and the commercial sector under the assumption that small-scale fisheries are insignificant,” Harper said. “This catch reconstruction highlights the substantial under-reporting of small-scale catches.”

Other major components missing from official Panamanian data include discarded bycatch, which is often overlooked but can be considerable, according to Harper. Poor fisheries monitoring, data collection and lack of human resources to spot errors also contribute to data deficiencies.

Accurate catch accounts are important to the national economy, especially in Panama, where fish like lobster and shrimp are major exports.

“Given the important economic and food security contributions of Panama’s fisheries, efforts must be made by fisheries governing bodies to improve catch data collection and reporting,” Harper said.

Discussing catch reconstructions in Senegal

February 10, 2014July 13, 2015Featured

Senegalese prime minister opening the Forum

The Prime Minister of Senegal opening the Forum of the Regional Marine and Coastal Conservation Programme for West Africa (©PRCM)

By Dyhia Belhabib

If I had to summarize my previous journeys in Senegal in one word, I would certainly use ‘denial’ for the first trip, ‘hope’ for the second, but many words for my last visit to Dakar last November when Dr. Daniel Pauly and I represented the Sea Around Us Project at the Forum of the Regional Marine and Coastal Conservation Programme for West Africa (Programme Régional de Conservation de la zone côtière et Marine; PRCM). The description of the Forum that can be found on the PRCM website underlines the importance of this event (www.forumprcm.org).

The theme of the Forum was ‘Investing in coastal and marine conservation for the wellbeing of populations’, and as suggested, its goal was to put forward ideas about the use of nature with a view to improve the wellbeing of people relying on it. Many different stakeholders were present (e.g., NGOs, professional fishers, scientists, decision-makers) and were eager to discuss sustainability and conservation.

I was delighted to meet again our collaborators and colleagues from Cape Verde, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Morocco, Senegal, and Sierra Leone, as well as from the Fishery Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC) countries, notably Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. On a lighter note, a young man from Tanzania presented his journey as he biked from Chile to Tanzania, raising awareness about the environment and funds for Tanzanian students along the way. He also reminded me that I am not the only person in this world who needs a visa to go to conferences and talk about issues and potential solutions for a sustainable use of the ocean. After all, if fish needed a visa, the issue of illegal fishing would not be that bad. Illegal fishing was actually one of the topics of the Forum, and our colleague Duncan Copeland talked about how to implement efficient, non-expensive solutions to tackle illegal fishing. While some Mauritanian representatives claimed that illegal fishing was no longer as significant as it was in the past, a representative from Guinea-Bissau stated that the coastal waters of “Bissau looked like Hong Kong at night”, referring to the lights of the industrial fishing boats illegally venturing into artisanal fishing grounds at night. Afterwards, I was not able to make up my mind between ‘content’ — as ‘admitting’ is the first step towards ‘healing’ — or ‘sadness’ — as the issue of illegal fishing is now so important, that being politically correct is no longer an option.

The presence of journalists made for a great opportunity for the Sea Around Us Project to share our knowledge of West African fisheries with the public, and to emphasize the implications of our catch reconstruction work. For example, I had the opportunity to clarify some points such as “women’s catches are not substantial, therefore, it is not an important activity”. Indeed, one can argue that if this activity allows women to be financially independent and provide their households with food, then, it is of paramount importance, regardless of the volume of the catch (especially if vulnerable species are targeted).

At the end of the day, the Forum was a very productive experience for the Sea Around Us Project, as NGOs, research institutes, and regional organizations were eager to use and work with the catch reconstruction results. Indeed, they all agreed that looking at the impact of local small-scale fisheries, filling data gaps, and contributing to capacity building in the region is an important process. For example, we discussed catch reconstructions with representatives from Morocco (who were keen to work with us) and from the FCWC region (with whom we recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding), as well as with traditional community representatives such as the Imraguen, who constantly remind us of the reasons why we are fighting to save our oceans.

After the Forum, Daniel and I had the honour of having an informal lunch with his Excellency the Minister of Fisheries of Senegal, Haïdar El Ali, who informed us of his decision to invite the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society to act in Senegal. It was pleasant to have a conversation with him as he seemed to be a person who is deeply driven by conservation. As we came back from Dakar, we also learned that Senegal had just arrested illegal Russian fishers despite diplomatic pressure from Russia. This action was backed by numbers the Sea Around Us Project estimated with colleagues from USAID and many other Senegalese organizations.

Breaking ground on illegal fishing in Senegal

January 31, 2014February 7, 2014Featured

Photo credit: Dyhia Belhabib

One of our PhD students Dyhia Belhabib headed a study that revealed catch numbers in Senegal have been misreported largely due to high levels of illegal fishing.

Belhabib’s research —a joint project with Sea Around Us and US Agency for International Development— found that the number of industrial catches is vastly underestimated. She worked with the DPM, World Wildlife Fund and data from the U.S. Navy, in the study that began in March 2012. It was published earlier this month.

In effect, the study has increased Senegal’s awareness of illegal fishing vessels. Earlier this month, they arrested members of an illegal Russian vessel for fishing in Senegalese waters.

Belhabib’s report stated that official reports and fishers’ accounts document the presence of illegal vessels—which are thought to be a major cause of problems for Senegalese artisanal fisheries.

Belhabib noted that artisanal fisheries have increased in both time and space.

“They go out more often and travel further away,” she said. “It’s been undetected for years.”

Senegalese artisanal fishing numbers have been reported at 80 per cent, but Belhabib’s research discovered the numbers are closer to half artisanal fishing and half industrial.

She stressed the importance of the findings, as they’ll help fishery decision-makers make more informed policy choices.

“These findings can help solve the problems of over-capacity in Senegalese waters,” she said.

You can read more about the study here:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165783613003007

See press on illegal fishing in Senegal here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25621864

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25859387

Dr. Dirk Zeller Publications

September 13, 2015October 1, 2015

Table of contents:
Peer-reviewed articles
Book chapters
Editorship
Working papers
Reports
Miscellaneous items

ARTICLES IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS

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In press

Belhabib D, Mendy A, Subah Y, Broh NT, Jueseah AS, Nipey N, Boeh WW, Willemse N, Zeller D and Pauly D (in press) Fisheries catch under-reporting in The Gambia, Liberia and Namibia, and the three Large Marine Ecosystems which they represent. Environmental Development.

2015

Al-Abdulrazzak D, Zeller D, Belhabib D, Tesfamichael D and Pauly D (2015) Total marine fisheries catches in the Persian/Arabian Gulf from 1950-2010. Regional Studies in Marine Science 2: 28-34. (Full text)

Belhabib D, Sumaila UR, Lam V, Kane EA, Zeller D, Le Billon P and Pauly D (2015) Euros vs. Yuan: Comparing European and Chinese fishing access in West Africa. PLoS ONE 10(3): e0118351. (Full text)

Piroddi C, Gristina M, Zylich K, Greer K, Ulman A, Zeller D and Pauly D (2015) Reconstruction of Italy’s marine fisheries removals and fishing capacity, 1950-2010. Fisheries Research 172: 137-147. (Full text)

Sumaila UR, Lam VWY, Miller D, Teh L, Watson R, Zeller D, Cheung WWL, Côté IM, Rogers A, Roberts C, Sala E and Pauly D (2015) Winners and losers in a world where the high seas is closed to fishing. Nature Scientific Reports 5: 8481 DOI: 8410.1038/srep08481. (Full text)

Ulman A, Çiçek B, Salihoglu I, Petrou A, Patsalidou M, Pauly D and Zeller D (2015) Unifying the catch data of a divided island: Cyprus’s marine fisheries catches, 1950-2010. Environment, Development and Sustainability 17(4): 801-821. (Full text)

Zeller D, Harper S, Zylich K and Pauly D (2015) Synthesis of under-reported small-scale fisheries catch in Pacific-island waters. Coral Reefs 34(1): 25-39. (Full text)

2014

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Coll M, Carreras M, Cornax MJ, Massutí E, Morote E, Pastor X, Quetglas A, Sáez R, Silva L, Sobrino I, Torres MA, Tudela S, Harper S, Zeller D and Pauly D (2014) Closer to reality: reconstructing total removals in mixed fisheries from Southern Europe. Fisheries Research 154: 179-194. (Full text)

Greer K, Harper S, Zeller D and Pauly D (2014) Evidence for overfishing on pristine coral reefs: reconstructing coastal catches in the Australian Indian Ocean Territories. Journal of the Indian Ocean Region 10(1): 67-80. (Full text)

Harper S, Guzmán HM, Zylich K and Zeller D (2014) Reconstructing Panama’s total fisheries catches from 1950 to 2010: Highlighting data deficiencies and management needs. Marine Fisheries Review 76(1-2): 51-65. (Full text)

Leitão F, Baptista V, Zeller D, Erzini K (2014) Reconstructed catches and trends for mainland Portugal fisheries between 1938 and 2009: implications for sustainability, domestic fish supply and imports. Fisheries Research 155: 33-50. (Full text)

Pauly D and Zeller D (2014). Accurate catches and the sustainability of coral reef fisheries. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 7:44-51. (Full text)

Pauly D, Belhabib D, Blomeyer R, Cheung WWL, Cisneros-Montemayor A, Copeland D, Harper S, Lam V, Mai Y, Le Manach F, Österblom H, Mok KM, van der Meer L, Sanz A, Shon S, Sumaila UR, Swartz W, Watson R, Zhai Y and Zeller D (2014) China’s distant water fisheries in the 21st century. Fish and Fisheries 15: 474-488. (Full text)

Watson R, Zeller D and Pauly D (2014) Primary productivity demands of global fishing fleets. Fish and Fisheries 15(2): 231-241. (Full text)

Zylich K, Harper S, Licandeo R, Vega R, Zeller D and Pauly D (2014) Fishing in Easter Island, a recent history (1950-2010). Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research 42(4): 845-856. (Full text)

2013

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Abudaya M, Harper S, Ulman A and Zeller D (2013). Correcting miss- and under-reported marine fisheries catches for the Gaza Strip: 1950-2010. Acta Adriatica 54(2): 241-252. (Full text)

Booth S, Hui J, Alojado Z, Lam V, Cheung W, Zeller D, Steyn D and Pauly D (2013). Global deposition of airborne dioxin. Marine Pollution Bulletin 75(1-2): 182-186. (Full text)

Cisneros-Montemayor A, Kirkwood FG, Harper S, Zeller D and Sumaila UR (2013) Economic use value of the Belize marine ecosystem: Potential risks and benefits from offshore oil exploration. Natural Resources Forum 37(4): 221-230. (Full text)

Edelist D, Scheinin A, Sonin O, Shapiro J, Salameh P, Gil R, Benayahu Y, Schulz D and Zeller D (2013). Israel: Reconstructed estimates of total fisheries removals in the Mediterranean, 1950–2010. Acta Adriatica 54(2): 253-246. (Full text)

Froese R, Zeller D, Kleisner K and Pauly D (2013). Worrisome trends in global stock status continue unabated: a response to a comment by R.M. Cook on “What catch data can tell us about the status of global fisheries”. Marine Biology (Berlin) 160:2531-2533. (Full text)

Halpern BS, Gaines SD, Kleisner K, Longo C, Pauly D, Rosenberg AA, Samhouri JF and Zeller D (2013). Halpern et al. reply to “Is the ocean food provision index biased?” Nature 495: E7. (Full text)

Harper S, Zeller D, Hauzer M, Sumaila UR and Pauly D 2013. Women and fisheries: contribution to food security and local economies. Marine Policy 39:56-63. (Full text)

Kleisner K, Longo C, Coll M, Halpern BS, Hardy D, Katona SK, Le Manach F, Pauly D, Rosenberg AA, Samhouri JF, Scarborough C, Sumaila UR, Watson R and Zeller D (2013) Exploring patterns of seafood provision revealed in the Ocean Health Index. AMBIO 42:910-922. (Full text)

Kleisner K, Zeller D, Froese R and Pauly D 2013. Using global catch data for inferences on the world’s marine fisheries. Fish and Fisheries 14(3):293-311. (Full text)

Le Manach F, Chaboud C, Copeland D, Cury P, Gascuel D, Kleisner K, Standing A, Sumaila UR, Zeller D and Pauly D (2013) European Union’s public fishing access agreements in developing countries. PLoS ONE 8(11): e79899. (Full text)

Le Manach F, Andriamahefazafy M, Harper S, Harris A, Hosch G, Lange G-M, Zeller D and Sumaila UR (2013). Who gets what? Developing a more equitable framework for EU fishing agreements. Marine Policy 38:257-266. (Full text)

Ulman A, Bekisoglu S, Zengin M, Knudsen S, Ünal V, Mathews C, Harper S, Zeller D and Pauly D 2013. From bonito to anchovy: A reconstruction of Turkey’s marine fisheries catches (1950-2010) Mediterranean Marine Science 14(2): 309-342. (Full text)

Watson R, Cheung WWL, Anticamara J, Sumaila RU, Zeller D and Pauly D 2013. Global marine yield halved as fishing intensity redoubles. Fish and Fisheries 14(4):493-503. (Full text)

2012

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Froese R., Zeller D., Kleisner K. and Pauly D. 2012. What catch data can tell us about the status of global fisheries. Marine Biology (Berlin) 159(6): 1283-1292. (Full text)

Halpern BS, Longo C, Hardy D, McLeod KL, Samhouri JF, Katona SK, Kleisner K, Lester SE, O’Leary J, Ranelletti M, Rosenberg AA, Scarborough C, Selig ER, Best BD, Brumbaugh DR, Chapin FS, Crowder LB, Daly KL, Doney SC, Elfes C, Fogarty MJ, Gaines SD, Jacobsen K, Karrer LB, Leslie HM, Neeley E, Pauly D, Polasky S, Ris B, St. Martin K, Stone GS, Sumaila UR and Zeller D. 2012. An index to assess the health and benefits of global marine social-ecological systems. Nature 488: 615-622. (Full text)

Le Manach, F., Gough, C., Harris, A., Humber, F., Harper, S. and Zeller, D. 2012. Unreported fishing, hungry people and political turmoil: the recipe for a food security crisis in Madagascar? Marine Policy 36:218-225. (Full text)

Le Manach, F., Gough, C., Harris, A., Humber, F., Harper, S. and Zeller, D. 2012. Erratum to “Unreported fishing, hungry people and political turmoil: the recipe for a food security crisis in Madagascar”. Marine Policy 36:564. (Full text)

Sumaila UR, Cheung WWL, Dyck A, Gueye KM, Huang L, Lam V, Pauly D, Srinivasan UT, Swartz W, Watson R and Zeller D. 2012. Benefits of rebuilding global marine fisheries outweigh costs. PLoS ONE 7(7): e40542. (Full text)

Sumaila UR, Cisneros-Montemayor A, Dyck A, Huang L, Cheung WWL, Jacquet J, Kleisner K, Lam V, McCrea-Strub A, Swartz W, Watson R, Zeller D and Pauly D 2012. Impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the Economics of U.S. Gulf fisheries. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 69: 499-510. (Full text)

2011

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McCrea-Strub, A., Kleisner, K., Sumaila, U.R., Swartz, W., Watson, R., Zeller, D. and Pauly, D. (2011) Potential Impact of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Commercial Fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico. Fisheries 36:332-336. (Full text)

McCrea-Strub, A., Zeller, D., Sumaila, U.R., Nelson, J., Balmford, A. and Pauly, D. 2011. Understanding the cost of establishing marine protected areas. Marine Policy 35: 1-9. (Full text)

Zeller, D., Booth, S., Pakhomov, E., Swartz, W. and Pauly, D. 2011. Arctic fisheries catches in Russia, USA and Canada: Baselines for neglected ecosystems. Polar Biology 34(7):955-973. (Full text)

Zeller, D., Rossing, P., Harper, S., Persson, L., Booth, S. and Pauly, D. 2011. The Baltic Sea: estimates of total fisheries removals 1950-2007. Fisheries Research 108: 356-363. (Full text)

2010

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Anticamara, J.A., Zeller, D. and Vincent, A.C.J. 2010. Spatial and temporal variation of abundance, biomass, and diversity within marine reserves in the Philippines. Diversity and Distributions 16: 529-536. (Full text)

Cheung, W.L., Lam, V., Sarmiento, J., Kearney, K., Watson, R., Zeller, D. and Pauly, D. 2010. Large-scale redistribution of maximum fisheries catch potential in the global ocean under climate change. Global Change Biology 16:24-35. (Full text)

Jacquet, J.L., Fox, H., Motta, H., Ngusaru, A. and Zeller, D. 2010. Few data but many fish: Marine small-scale fisheries catches for Mozambique and Tanzania. African Journal of Marine Science 32(2):197-206. (Full text)

Jacquet, J.L., Zeller, D. and Pauly, D. 2010. Counting fish: A typology for fisheries catch data. Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences 7(2):135-144. (Full text)

Wielgus, J., Zeller, D., Caicedo-Herrera, D. and Sumaila, U.R. 2010. Estimation of fisheries removals and primary economic impact of the small-scale and industrial marine fisheries in Colombia. Marine Policy 34:506-513. (Full text)

2009

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Christensen, V., Walters, C., Ahrens, R., Alder, J., Buszowski, J., Christensen, L., Cheung, W.L., Dunne, J., Froese, R., Karpouzi, V., Kastner, K., Kearney, K., Lai, S., Lam, V., Palomares, D., Peters-Mason, A., Piroddi, C., Sarmiento, J.L., Steenbeek, J., Sumaila, R.U., Watson, R., Zeller, D. and Pauly, D. 2009. Database-driven models of the world’s large marine ecosystems. Ecological Modelling 220:1984-1996. (Full text)

Mora, C., Myers, R.A., Coll, M., Libralato, S., Pitcher, T.J., Sumaila, R.U., Zeller, D., Watson, R., Gaston, K.J. and Worm, B. 2009. Management effectiveness of the world’s marine fisheries. PLoS Biology 7(6): 1-11. (Full text)

Worm, B., Hilborn, R., Baum, J.K., Branch, T., Collie, J.S., Costello, C., Fogarty, M.J., Fulton, E.A., Hutchings, J.A., Jennings, S., Jensen, O.P., Lotze, H.K., Mace, P.M., McClanahan, T.R., Minto, C., Palumbi, S.R., Parma, A.M., Ricard, D., Rosenberg, A.A., Watson, R. and Zeller, D. 2009. Rebuilding global fisheries. Science 325: 578-585. (Full text)

2008

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Jacquet, J.L., Alava, J.J., Ganapathiraju, P., Henderson, S. and Zeller, D. 2008. In hot soup: sharks captured in Ecuador’s waters. Environmental Sciences 5(4):269-283. (Full text)

Zeller, D., Darcy, M., Booth, S., Lowe, M.K. and Martell, S.J. 2008. What about recreational catch? Potential impact on stock assessment for Hawaii’s bottomfish fisheries. Fisheries Research 91:88-97. (Full text)

2007

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Sumaila, U.R., Khan, A., Watson, R., Munro, G., Zeller, D., Baron, N. and Pauly, D. 2007. The World Trade Organization and global fisheries sustainability. Fisheries Research 88:1-4. (Full text)

Sumaila, U.R., Zeller, D., Watson, R., Alder, J. and Pauly, D. 2007. Potential costs and benefits of marine reserves in the high seas. Marine Ecology Progress Series 345: 305-310. (Full text)

Teh, L., Zeller, D., Cabanban, A., Teh, L. and Sumaila, U.R. 2007. Seasonality and historic trends in the reef fisheries of Pulau Banggi, Sabah, Malaysia. Coral Reefs 26:251-163. (Full text)

Zeller, D., Booth, S., Davis, G. and Pauly, D. 2007. Re-estimation of small-scale fisheries catches for U.S. flag island areas in the Western Pacific: The last 50 years. US Fishery Bulletin 105(2):266-277. (Full text)

2006

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Zeller, D., Booth, S. and Pauly, D. 2006. Fisheries contributions to GDP: Underestimating small-scale fisheries in the Pacific. Marine Resource Economics 21(4):355-374. (Full text)

Zeller, D., Booth, S., Craig, P. and Pauly, D. 2006. Reconstruction of coral reef fisheries catches in American Samoa, 1950 – 2002. Coral Reefs 25:144-152. (Full text)

2005

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Booth, S. and Zeller, D. 2005. Mercury, food webs and marine mammals: implications of diet and climate change on human health. Environmental Health Perspectives 113(5): 521-526. (Full text)

Zeller, D. and Pauly, D. 2005. Good news, bad news: Global fisheries discards are declining, but so are total catches. Fish and Fisheries 6:156-159. (Full text)

Zeller, D., Froese, R. and Pauly, D. 2005. On losing and recovering fisheries and marine science data. Marine Policy 29(1):69-73. (Full text)

2004

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Zeller, D. and Pauly, D. 2004. The future of fisheries: from ‘exclusive’ resource policy to ‘inclusive’ public policy. In: H.I. Browman and K.I. Stergiou (eds.) Perspectives on ecosystem approaches to the management of marine resources. Marine Ecology Progress Series 274:295-303. (Full text)

Zeller D. and Reinert J. 2004. Modelling spatial closures and fishing effort restrictions in the Faroe Islands marine ecosystem. Ecological Modelling 172: 403-420. (Full text)

Zeller, D. and Russ, G.R. 2004. Are fisheries “sustainable”? A counterpoint to Steele and Hoagland. Fisheries Research 67(2): 241-245. (Full text)

2003

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Christensen, V., Guénette, S., Heymans, J., Walters, C., Watson, R., Zeller, D and Pauly, D. 2003. Hundred-year decline of North Atlantic predatory fishes. Fish and Fisheries 4:1-24. (Full text)

Russ, G.R. and Zeller, D. 2003. From Mare Liberum to Mare Reservarum. Marine Policy 27(1): 75-78. (Full text)

Zeller D, Stoute, SL, and Russ, GR 2003. The movement of reef fishes across marine reserve boundaries: Effects of manipulating a density gradient. Marine Ecology Progress Series 254: 269-280. (Full text)

2002

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Alder, J., Zeller, D., Pitcher, T.J. and Sumaila, U.R. 2002. A method for evaluating Marine Protected Areas Management. Coastal Management 30(2): 121-131. (Full text)

Pauly, D., Christensen, V., Guénette, S., Pitcher, T.J., Sumaila, U.R., Walters, C.J., Watson, R. and Zeller, D. 2002. Towards sustainability in world fisheries. Insight Review Article. Nature 418: 689-695. (Full text)

Zeller D. 2002 Tidal current orientation of Plectropomus leopardus (Serranidae). Coral Reefs 21:183-187. (Full text)

2001

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Zeller D. and Pauly D. 2001. Visualisation of standardised life-history patterns. Fish and Fisheries 2(4): 344-355. (Full text)

2000

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Zeller D. and Russ G.R. 2000. Population estimates and size structure of Plectropomus leopardus (Pisces: Epinephelinae) in relation to no-fishing zones: mark-release-resighting and underwater visual census. Marine and Freshwater Research 51: 221-228. (Full text)

1999

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Zeller D. 1999. Ultrasonic telemetry: Application in coral reef fisheries research. Fishery Bulletin US 97(4):1058-1065. (Full text)

1998

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Zeller D. 1998 Spawning aggregations: Patterns of movement of the coral trout Plectropomus leopardus (Serranidae) as determined by ultrasonic telemetry. Marine Ecology Progress Series 162:253-263. (Full text)

Zeller D. and Russ G.R. 1998 Marine reserves: Patterns of adult movement of the coral trout Plectropomus leopardus (Serranidae). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 55:917-924. (Full text)

1997

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Zeller D. 1997 Home range and activity patterns of the coral trout Plectropomus leopardus (Serranidae). Marine Ecology Progress Series 154:65-77. (Full text)

1988-89

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Limpus C.J., Zeller D., Kwan D., and MacFarlane W. 1989 Sea-turtle Rookeries in North-western Torres Strait. Australian Wildlife Research 16:517-525. (Full text)

Zeller D. 1988. Short-term effects of territoriality of a tropical damselfish and experimental exclusion of large fishes on invertebrates in algal turfs. Marine Ecology Progress Series 44:85-93. (Full text)

Book chapters

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Al-Abdulrazzak D, Zeller D and Pauly D (2014) Understanding fisheries through historical reconstructions: Applications to fishery management and policy at different governance scales. pp. 119-133 In Kittinger JN, McClenachan L, Gedan K and Blight LK (eds.), Marine historical ecology in conservation: Applying the past to manage for the future. University of California Press. (Full text)

Pauly D, Watson R and Zeller D (2012) Where fisheries have been, and why they are going. pp. 15-26 In Soeters K (ed.) Sea the Truth: Essays on Overfishing, Pollution and Climate Change Nicolaas G. Pierson Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Makaiau J, Dalzell P, Dinardo G, Alexander C, Fougner S and Zeller D (2011) Ecosystem Science and Planning. pp. 3-101 In Glazier EW (ed.) Ecosystem-based fisheries management in the western Pacific. Wiley-Blackwell, Ames.

Watson, R., Sumaila, R.U. and Zeller, D. (2011) How much fish is being extracted from the oceans and what it is worth? Pp. 55-71 In Christensen, V. and MacLean, J., (eds.), Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries: A Global Perspective. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (Full text)

Zeller, D. (2011) Reconstructing Time-Series Catch Data. pp. 38-42. In: Glazier, E.W. (ed.) Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management in the Western Pacific. Wiley, Ames.

Christensen, V., Walters, C.J., Ahrens, R., Alder, J., Buszowski, J., Christensen, L.B., Cheung, W.W.L., Dunne, J., Froese, R., Karpouzi, V., Kastner, K., Kearney, K., Lai, S., Lam, V., Palomares, M.L.D., Peters-Mason, A., Piroddi, C., Sarmiento, J.L., Steenbeek, J., Sumaila, R., Watson, R., Zeller, D. and Pauly, D. (2010) Database-driven models of the world’s large marine ecosystems. p. 74-103 In: Sherman, K. and Adams, S., (eds.), Sustainable Development of the World’s Large Marine Ecosystemd during Climate Change: A commemorative volume to advance sustainable development on the occasion of the presentation of the 2010 Gteborg Award. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Zeller, D., Cheung, W.W.L., Close, C. and Pauly, D. (2009) Trends in global marine fisheries – a critical view. p. 87-107 In Wrammer, P., Ackefors, H. and Cullberg, M., (eds.), Fisheries, sustainability and development. Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, Stockholm. (Full text)

Engelman, R., Pauly, D., Zeller, D., Prinn, R.G., Pinnegar, J.K., Polunin, N.V.C. (2008) Climate, people, fisheries and aquatic ecosystems. Pages 1-15 In Polunin, N.V.C. (ed.), Aquatic Ecosystems: Trends and global prospects. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (Full text)

Pauly, D., Alder, J., Booth, S., Cheung, W.W.L., Close, C., Sumaila, U.R., Tavakolie, A., Swartz, W., Watson, R. and Zeller, D. (2008) Fisheries in Large Marine Ecosystems: Descriptions and Diagnoses. pp. 23-40 In: Sherman, K. and G. Hempel (eds.). The UNEP Large Marine Ecosystem Report: a Perspective on Changing Conditions in LMEs of the World’s Regional Seas. UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 182, Nairobi. (Full text)

Zeller, D. (2005) From Mare Liberum to Mare Reservarum: Canada’s opportunity for global leadership in ocean resource governance. Pages 1-18 In A. Chircop and M. McConnell (eds.) Ocean Yearbook Volume 19, University of Chicago Press, Chicago. (Full text)

Zeller, D. (2003) Marine Reserves: Time for a Global Perspective. Pages 70-74 In: J.P. Beumer, A. Grant and D.C. Smith (eds.). Aquatic Protected Areas – What works best and how do we know? University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia. (Full text)

O’Dor R., Aitken JP, Bolden S., Babcock RC., Seinto S., Zeller D. and Jackson G. (2001) Using radio-acoustic positioning and telemetry (RAPT) to define and assess marine protected areas (MPAs). Pages 147-166 In J. Sibert and J. Nielsen (eds.) Electronic Tagging and Tracking in Marine Fisheries. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands.

Editorship

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Pauly D and Zeller D, editors (2015) Catch Reconstruction: concepts, methods and data sources. Online Publication. Sea Around Us (www.seaaroundus.org), University of British Columbia.

Zylich K, Zeller D, Ang M and Pauly D, editors (2014) Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part IV. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 22(2), University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada). 157 p.

Belhabib D, Zeller D, Harper S and Pauly D, editors (2012) Marine fisheries catches in West Africa, 1950-2010, Part I. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 20(3), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 104 p.

Harper S, Zylich K, Boonzaier L, Le Manach F, Pauly D and Zeller D, editors (2012) Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part III. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 20(5), University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada). 134 p.

Makaiau, J., Dalzell, P., Dinardo, G., Alexander, C., Fougner, S. and Zeller, D. (section editors) 2011. Section 1: Ecosystem Science and Planning. pp. 3-105. In: Glazier, E.W. (ed.) Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management in the Western Pacific. Wiley-Blackwell, Ames, USA.

Harper, S. and Zeller, D., (Editors) 2011. Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part II. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 19(4). Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 145 p.

Christensen, V., Lai, S., Valls, A., Palomares, M.L.D., Zeller, D. and Pauly, D. (Editors) 2011. The State of Biodiversity and Fisheries in Regional Seas. Fisheries Center Research Reports Vol. 19(3), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, 82 pp.

Rossing, P., Booth, S. and Zeller, D. (Editors) 2010. Total marine fisheries extractions by country in the Baltic Sea: 1950-present. Vancouver, Fisheries Centre Research Report 18(1), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, 263 pp.

Zeller, D. and Harper, S. (Editors) 2009. Fisheries catch reconstruction: Islands Part I. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 17(5), 104 pp.

Zeller, D. and Pauly, D. (Editors) 2007. Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for key countries and regions (1950-2004). Fisheries Centre Research Reports 15(2), 163 pp.

Makaiau, J., Dalzell, P., DiNardo, G., Alexander, C., Fougner, S. and Zeller, D. (Editors) 2006. Ecosystem Science and Management Planning Workshop: Development of Ecosystem-based Approaches to Marine Resource Management in the Western Pacific Region. Report for the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, Honolulu, Hawaii, 157 pp.

Zeller D., Booth, S., Mohammed E. and Pauly D. (editors) 2003. From Mexico to Brazil: Central Atlantic fisheries catch trends and ecosystem models. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 11(6), 264 pp.

Zeller D., Watson R. and Pauly D. (Editors) 2001. Fisheries Impacts on North Atlantic Ecosystems: Catches, effort and national/regional data sets. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 9(3), 254 pp

Working papers

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Coll M, Carreras M, Cornax MJ, Massutí E, Morote E, Pastor X, Quetglas A, Sáez R, Silva L, Sobrino I, Torres M, Tudela S, Harper S, Zeller D and Pauly D (2015) An estimate of the total catch in the Spanish Mediterranean Sea and Gulf of Cadiz regions (1950-2010). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-60, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 52 p.

Divovich E, Belhabib D, Zeller D and Pauly D (2015a) Eastern Canada, “a fishery with no clean hands”: Marine fisheries catch reconstruction from 1950 to 2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-56, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 37 p.

Divovich E, Jovanović B, Zylich K, Harper S, Zeller D and Pauly D (2015b) Caviar and politics: A reconstruction of Russia’s marine fisheries in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov from 1950 to 2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-84, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 24 p.

Doherty B, Gibson D, Zhai Y, McCrea-Strub A, Zylich K, Zeller D and Pauly D (2015a) Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for Subarctic Alaska, 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-82, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 31 p.

Donadi R, Au A, Zylich K, Harper S and Zeller D (2015) Reconstruction of marine fisheries in El Salvador 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-35, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 22 p.

Funes M, Zylich K, Divovich E, Zeller D, Lindop A, Pauly D and Box S (2015) Honduras, a fish exporting country: Preliminary reconstructed marine catches in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Fonseca, 1950 – 2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-90, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 16 p.

Gibson D, Cardwell E, Zylich K and Zeller D (2015a) Preliminary reconstruction of total marine fisheries catches for the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands in EEZ equivalent waters (1950-2010). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-76, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 20 p.

Gibson D, Froese R, Ueberschaer B, Zylich K and Zeller D (2015b) Reconstruction of total marine fisheries catches for Germany in the North Sea (1950-2010). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-09, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 11 p.

Gibson D, McCrea-Strub A and Zeller D (2015c) Updated reconstruction of Hawaiian fisheries 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-83, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 8 p.

Gibson D, Zylich K and Zeller D (2015d) Preliminary reconstruction of total marine fisheries catches for the Faeroe Islands in Faroe Islands’ EEZ waters (1950-2010). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-36, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 12 p.

Gibson D, Zylich K and Zeller D (2015e) Preliminary reconstruction of total marine fisheries catches for the Netherlands in the North Sea (1950-2010). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-46, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 15 p.

Haas A, Harper S, Zylich K and Zeller D (2015) Reconstruction of Nicaragua’s fisheries catches: 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-23, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 9 p.

Halouani G, Ben Rais Lasram F, Khalfallah M, Zeller D and Pauly D (2015) Reconstruction of Marine Fisheries catches for Tunisia (1950-2010). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-95, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 11 p.

Harper S, Frotté L, Booth S, Veitch L and Zeller D (2015) Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for French Guiana from 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-07, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 10 p.

Hornby C, Arun Kumar M, Bhathal B, Pauly D and Zeller D (2015a) Reconstruction of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India) marine fish catch from 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-75, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 26 p.

Hornby C, Bhathal B, Pauly D and Zeller D (2015b) Reconstruction of India’s marine fish catch from 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-77, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 42 p.

Hornby C, Harper S, MacDonald J and Zeller D (2015c) Reconstruction of Suriname’s marine fisheries catches from 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-49, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 14 p.

Iritani D, Färber L, Zylich K and Zeller D (2015) Reconstruction of fisheries catches for Bosnia-Herzegovina: 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-15, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 7 p.

Jeanel G, Ramdeen R, Zylich K and Zeller D (2015) Reconstruction of total marine fisheries catch for Antigua and Barbuda (1950-2010). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-13, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 17 p.

Jovanović B, Divovich E, Harper S, Zeller D and Pauly D (2015) Preliminary estimate of total Russian fisheries catches in the Barents Sea region (ICES subarea I) between 1950 and 2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-59, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 16 p.

Keskin Ç, Ulman A, Raykov V, Daskalov GM, Zylich K, Pauly D and Zeller D (2015) Reconstruction of fisheries catches for Bulgaria: 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-20, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 18 p.

Khalfallah M, Belhabib D, Zeller D and Pauly D (2015a) Reconstruction of Marine Fisheries catches for Libya (1950-2010). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-47, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 15 p.

Khalfallah M, Dimech M, Ulman A, Zeller D and Pauly D (2015b) Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for the Republic of Malta (1950-2010). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-43, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 12 p.

Khalfallah M, Zeller D and Pauly D (2015c) Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for Fujairah (UAE) (1950-2010). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-57, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 12 p.

Khalfallah M, Zylich K, Zeller D and Pauly D (2015d) Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for Oman (1950-2010). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-89, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 11 p.

Kleisner K, Brennan C, Garland A, Lingard S, Tracey S, Sahlqvist P, Tsolos A, Pauly D and Zeller D (2015) Australia: Reconstructing estimates of total fisheries removal, 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-02, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 26 p.

Lindop A, Bultel E, Zylich K and Zeller D (2015a) Reconstructing the former Netherlands Antilles marine catches from 1950 to 2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-69, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 22 p.

Lindop A, Chen T, Zylich K and Zeller D (2015b) A Reconstruction of Colombia’s marine fisheries catches. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-32, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 15 p.

Lindop A, Ixquiac-Cabrera M, Zylich K and Zeller D (2015c) A reconstruction of marine fish catches in the Republic of Guatemala. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-41, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 17 p.

MacDonald J, Harper S, Booth S and Zeller D (2015) Guyana Fisheries Catches: 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-21, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 18 p.

Ramdeen R, Zylich K and Zeller D (2015) Reconstruction of total marine fisheries catches for the US Virgin Islands (1950-2010). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-64, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 9 p.

Seto K, Belhabib D, Copeland D, Vakily M, Seilert H, Sankoh S, Baio A, Turay I, Harper S, Zeller D, Zylich K and Pauly D (2015) Colonialism, conflict, and fish: a reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for Sierra Leone, 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-74, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 23 p.

Shon S, Manuel Delgado J, Morato T, Kim Pham C, Zylich K, Zeller D and Pauly D (2015) Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for Madeira Island, Portugal from 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-52, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 13 p.

Simmons G, Bremner G, Stringer C, Torkington B, Teh L, Zylich K, Zeller D, Pauly D and Whittaker H (2015) Preliminary reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for New Zealand (1950-2010). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-87, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 33 p.

Teh L, Zeller D and Pauly D (2015a) Preliminary reconstruction of Thailand’s fisheries catches: 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-01, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 14 p.

Teh LCL, Zylich K and Zeller D (2015b) FAO area 18 (Arctic Sea): Catch data reconstruction extension of Zeller et al. (2011) to 2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-14, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 5 p.

Ulman A, Burke L, Hind E, Ramdeen R and Zeller D (2015a) Reconstruction of total marine fisheries catches for the Turks and Caicos Islands (1950-2012). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-63, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 23 p.

Ulman A, Saad A, Zylich K, Pauly D and Zeller D (2015c) Reconstruction of Syria’s fisheries catches from 1950-2010: Signs of overexploitation. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-80, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 26 p.

van der Meer L, Arancibia H, Zylich K and Zeller D (2015) Reconstruction of total marine fisheries catches for mainland Chile (1950-2010). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-91, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 15 p.

Villasante S, Macho G, Giráldez J, Rivero Rodriguez S, Isusu de Rivero J, Divovich E, Harper S, Zeller D and Pauly D (2015a) Estimates of total marine fisheries removals from the Northwest of Spain, 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-51, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 21 p.

Villasante S, Macho G, Isusu de Rivero J, Divovich E, Zylich K, Harper S, Zeller D and Pauly D (2015b) Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches in Argentina (1950-2010). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-50, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 16 p.

Teh L, Zylich K and Zeller D (2014) Preliminary reconstruction of Bermuda’s marine fisheries catches, 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2014-24, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 17 p.

Piroddi C, Gristina M, Zylich K, Ulman A, Zeller D and Pauly D (2014) Reconstruction of Italy’s marine fisheries catches (1950-2010). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2014-22, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 41 p.

Shon S, Harper S and Zeller D (2014) Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) from 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2014-20, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 11 p.

Shon S, Harper S and Zeller D (2014) Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for the Republic of Korea (South Korea) from 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2014-19, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 13 p.

Teh L, Shon S, Zylich K and Zeller D (2014) Reconstructing Cambodia’s marine fisheries catch, 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2014-18, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 12 p.

Teh L, Zeller D, Zylich K, Hguyen G and Harper S (2014) Reconstructing Vietnam’s marine fisheries catch, 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2014-17, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 10 p.

Ullah H, Gibson D, Knip D, Zylich K and Zeller D (2014) Reconstruction of total marine fisheries catches for Bangladesh: 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2014-15, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 10 p.

Persson L, Lindop A, Harper S, Zylich K and Zeller D (2014) Failed state: Reconstruction of domestic fisheries catches in Somalia 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2014-10, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 38 p.

Teh L, Kinch J, Zylich K and Zeller D (2014) Reconstructing Papua New Guinea’s marine fisheries catch, 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2014-09, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 25 p.

Leitão F, Baptista V, Erzini K, Iritani D and Zeller D (2014) Reconstruction of mainland Portugal fisheries catches 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2014-08, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 29 p.

Zylich K, Harper S, Licanceo R, Vega R, Zeller D and Pauly D (2014) Fishing in Easter Island, a recent history (1950-2010). La Pesca en Isla de Pascua, una historia reciente (1950-2010). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2014-07, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 19 p.

Vali S, Rhodes K, Au A, Zylich K, Harper S and Zeller D (2014) Reconstruction of total fisheries catches for the Federated States of Micronesia (1950-2009). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2014-06, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 16 p.

Zylich K, Harper S and Zeller D (2014) Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for the Republic of Kiribati, 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2014-04, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 25 p.

Zylich K, Shon S, Harper S and Zeller D (2014) Reconstruction of total marine fisheries catches for the Republic of Vanuatu, 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper 2014-03, Fisheris Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 17 p.

Haas A, Harper S, Zylich K, Hehre J and Zeller D (2014) Reconstruction of the Republic of the Marshall Islands fisheries catches: 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2014-02, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 15 p.

Miller D and Zeller D (2013) Reconstructing Ireland’s marine fisheries catches: 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2013-10, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 48 p.

Ulman A, Çiçek B, Salihoglu I, Petrou A, Patsalidou M, Pauly D and Zeller D (2013) The reconstruction and unification of Cyprus’ marine fisheries catch data, 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2013-09, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 72 p.

Belhabib D, Mendy A, Zeller D, Pauly D (2013) Big fishing for small fishes: six decades of fisheries in The Gambia, “the smiling coast of Africa”. Fisheries Centre Working Papers #2013-07, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 20 p.

Belhabib D, Subah Y, Broh NT, Jueseah AS, Nipey JN, Boeh WY, Copeland D, Zeller D, Pauly D (2013) When ‘Reality leaves a lot to the imagination’: Liberian fisheries from 1950 to 2010. Fisheries Centre Working Papers #2013-06, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 18 p.

Hornby C, Harper S, MacDonald J and Zeller D (2012) Reconstruction of Suriname’s marine fisheries catches from 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2012-10, Vancouver (Canada). 24 p.

Chaitanya D, Harper S and Zeller D (2012) Reconstruction of total marine fisheries catches for the Pitcairn Islands (1950-2009). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2012-07, Vancouver (Canada). 10 p.

Doyle B, Harper S, Jacquet J and Zeller D (2012) Reconstructing marine fisheries catches in the Solomon Islands (1950-2009). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2012-08, Vancouver (Canada). 17 p.

Lingard S, Harper S and Zeller D (2012) Reconstructed catches of Samoa (1950-2009). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2012-06, Vancouver (Canada). 34 p.

Trujillo P, Cisneros-Montemayor AM, Harper S and Zeller D (2012) Reconstruction of Costa Rica’s marine fisheries catches (1950-2008). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2012-03, Vancouver (Canada). 21 p.

Zylich K, Harper S, Winkler N and Zeller D (2012) Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for Niue (1950-2009). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2012-05, Vancouver (Canada). 17 p.

Zylich K, O’Meara D, Jacquet J, Harper S and Zeller D 2012. Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for the Republic of Fiji (1950-2009). Working Paper # 2012-02, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 27 p. [Available at: www.fisheries.ubc.ca/publications/working/index.php]

Cheung, W.W.L., Booth, S., Zeller, D. and Pauly, D. 2010. Impact of climate change on US marine fisheries with emphasis on the Gulf and Southeast Atlantic States. Working Paper #2010-12, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada [Available at: www.fisheries.ubc.ca/publications/working/index.php], Vancouver, 8 p.

Zeller, D., Booth, S. and Pauly, D. 2007. Historic catch reconstruction for coral reef- and bottom-fisheries in the State of Hawaii, 1950-2002. Working Paper #2007-06, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada [Available at: www.fisheries.ubc.ca/publications/working/index.php]

Jacquet, J.L. and Zeller, D. 2007. National conflict and fisheries: Reconstructing marine fisheries catches for Mozambique, 1950-2004. Working Paper #2007-02, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada [Available at: www.fisheries.ubc.ca/publications/working/index.php]

Teh, L., Zeller, D., Cabanban, A., Teh, L. and Sumaila, U.R. 2006. Seasonality and historic trends in the reef fisheries of Pulau Banggi, Sabah, Malaysia. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2005-07, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada [Available at: www.fisheries.ubc.ca/publications/working/index.php]

Pauly, D., Booth, S., Christensen, V., Cheung, W.L., Close, C., Kitchingman, A., Palomares, M.L.D., Watson, R. and Zeller, D. 2005. On the Exploitation of Elasmobranchs, with Emphasis on Cowtail Stingray Pastinachus sephen (Family Dasyatidae). Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2005-07, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada [Available at: www.fisheries.ubc.ca/publications/working/index.php], 37 p.

Zeller, D., Booth, S. and Pauly, D. 2005. Fisheries contributions to GDP: Underestimating small-scale fisheries in the Pacific. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2005-05, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada [Available at: www.fisheries.ubc.ca/publications/working/index.php], 21 p.

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Baust S, Teh L, Harper S and Zeller D (2015) South Africa’s marine fisheries catches (1950–2010). pp. 129-150 In Le Manach F and Pauly D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions in the Western Indian Ocean, 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 23(2), University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Bultel E, Doherty B, Herman A, Le Manach F and Zeller D (2015) An update of the reconstructed marine fisheries catches of Tanzania with taxonomic breakdown. pp. 151-161 In Le Manach F and Pauly D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions in the Western Indian Ocean, 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 23(2), University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Doherty B, Herfaut J, Le Manach F, Harper S and Zeller D (2015) Reconstructing domestic marine fisheries in Mayotte from 1950–2010. pp. 53-65 In Le Manach F and Pauly D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions in the Western Indian Ocean, 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 23(2), University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Doherty B, McBride MM, Brito AJ, Le Manach F, Sousa L, Chauca I and Zeller D (2015) Marine fisheries in Mozambique: catches updated to 2010 and taxonomic disaggregation. pp. 67-81 In Le Manach F and Pauly D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions in the Western Indian Ocean, 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 23(2), University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Persson L, Lindop A, Harper S, Zylich K and Zeller D (2015) Failed state: reconstruction of domestic fisheries catches in Somalia 1950–2010. pp. 111-127 In Le Manach F and Pauly D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions in the Western Indian Ocean, 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 23(2), University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Au A, Zylich K and Zeller D (2014) Reconstruction of total marine fisheries catches for Cuba (1950-2010). pp. 25-32 In Zylich K, Zeller D, Ang M and Pauly D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part IV. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 22(2), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).

Haas A, Harper S, Zylich K, Here J and Zeller D (2014) Reconstruction of the Republic of the Marshall Islands catches: 1950-2010. pp. 121-128 In Zylich K, Zeller D, Ang M and Pauly D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part IV. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 22(2), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).

Hemmings M, Harper S and Zeller D (2014) Reconstruction of total marine catches for the Maldives: 1950-2010. pp. 107-120 In Zylich K, Zeller D, Ang M and Pauly D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part IV. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 22(2), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).

Ramdeen R, Harper S and Zeller D (2014) Reconstruction of total marine fisheries catches for Dominica (1950-2010). pp. 33-41 In Zylich K, Zeller D, Ang M and Pauly D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part IV. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 22(2), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).

Ramdeen R, Harper S, Zylich K and Zeller D (2014) Reconstruction of total marine fisheries catches for the British Virgin Islands (1950-2010). pp. 9-16 In Zylich K, Zeller D, Ang M and Pauly D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part IV. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 22(2), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).

Ramdeen R, Zylich K and Zeller D (2014) Reconstruction of total marine fisheries catches for Anguilla (1950-2010). pp. 1-8 In Zylich K, Zeller D, Ang M and Pauly D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part IV. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 22(2), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).

Ramdeen R, Zylich K and Zeller D (2014) Reconstruction of total marine fisheries catches for St. Kitts and Nevis (1950-2010). pp. 129-136 In Zylich K, Zeller D, Ang M and Pauly D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part IV. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 22(2), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).

van der Meer L, Ramdeen R, Zylich K and Zeller D (2014) Reconstruction of total marine fisheries catches for the Dominican Republic (1950-2010). pp. 43-53 In Zylich K, Zeller D, Ang M and Pauly D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part IV. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 22(2), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).

Zeller D and Pauly D (2014) Reconstruction of domestic fisheries catches in the Chagos Archipelago: 1950-2010. pp. 17-23 In Zylich K, Zeller D, Ang M and Pauly D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part IV. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 22(2), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).

Zylich K, Harper S and Zeller D (2014) Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for the Republic of Kiribati (1950-2010). pp. 89-105 In Zylich K, Zeller D, Ang M and Pauly D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part IV. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 22(2), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).

Zylich K, Shon S, Harper S and Zeller D (2014) Reconstruction of total marine fisheries catches for the Republic of Vanuatu, 1950-2010. pp. 147-156 In Zylich K, Zeller D, Ang M and Pauly D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part IV. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 22(2), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).

Hornby C, Moazzam M, Zylich K and Zeller D (2014) Reconstruction of Pakistan’s marine fisheries catches (1950 – 2010). FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Circular No. 1085. RAP/C1085(En), Food and Agriculture Organization, Karachi, Pakistan. 39 p.

Roshan Moniri N, Roshan Moniri N, Zeller D, Al-Abdulrazzak D, Zylich K and Belhabib D (2013) Fisheries catch reconstruction for Iran, 1950-2010. pp. 9-18 In Al-Abdulrazzak D and Pauly D (eds.), From dhows to trawlers: a recent history of fisheries in the Gulf countries, 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 21(2). Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Belhabib D, Pauly D, Harper S and Zeller D (2012) Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for Algeria, 1950-2010. pp. 1-22 In Belhabib D, Zeller D, Harper S and Pauly D (eds.), Marine fisheries catches in West Africa, 1950-2010, part I. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 20(3), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Belhabib D, Harper S, Zeller D and Pauly D (2012) Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches from Morocco (north, central and south), 1950-2010. pp. 23-40 In Belhabib D, Zeller D, Harper S and Pauly D (eds.), Marine fisheries catches in West Africa, 1950-2010, part I. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 20(3), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Belhabib D, Harper S and Zeller D (2012) An overview of fish removals from Morocco by Distant-Water Fleets, 1950-2010. pp. 41-60 In Belhabib D, Zeller D, Harper S and Pauly D (eds.), Marine fisheries catches in West Africa, 1950-2010, part I. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 20(3), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Belhabib D, Gascuel D, Kane EA, Harper S, Zeller D and Pauly D (2012) Preliminary estimation of realistic fisheries removals from Mauritania, 1950-2010. pp. 61-78 In Belhabib D, Zeller D, Harper S and Pauly D (eds.), Marine fisheries catches in West Africa, 1950-2010, part I. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 20(3), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Trindade Santos I, Monteiro CA, Harper S, Zylich K, Zeller D and Belhabib D (2012) Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for the Republic of Cape Verde, 1950-2010. pp. 79-90 In Belhabib D, Zeller D, Harper S and Pauly D (eds.), Marine fisheries catches in West Africa, 1950-2010, part I. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 20(3), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Belhabib D, Doumbouya A, Diallo I, Traore S, Camara Y, Copeland D, Gorez B, Harper S, Zeller D and Pauly D (2012) Guinean fisheries, past, present and… future? pp. 91-104 In Belhabib D, Zeller D, Harper S and Pauly D (eds.), Marine fisheries catches in West Africa, 1950-2010, part I. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 20(3), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Greer K, Harper S, Zeller D and Pauly D (2012) Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island: Brief history of fishing and coastal catches (1950-2010). pp. 1-13 In Harper S, Zylich K, Boonzaier L, Le Manach F, Pauly D and Zeller D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part III. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 20(5), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).

Haas A, Rongo T, Hefferman N, Harper S and Zeller D (2012) Reconstruction of the Cook Islands fisheries catches: 1950-2010. pp. 15-24 In Harper S, Zylich K, Boonzaier L, Le Manach F, Pauly D and Zeller D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part III. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 20(5), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).

Zylich K, O’Meara D, Jacquet J, Harper S and Zeller D (2012) Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for the Republic of Fiji (1950-2009). pp. 25-36 In Harper S, Zylich K, Boonzaier L, Le Manach F, Pauly D and Zeller D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part III. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 20(5), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).

Ramdeen R, Belhabib D, Harper S and Zeller D (2012) Reconstruction of total marine fisheries catches for Haiti and Navassa Island (1950-2010). pp. 37-45 In Harper S, Zylich K, Boonzaier L, Le Manach F, Pauly D and Zeller D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part III. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 20(5), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).

Lingard S, Harper S, Aiken C, Hado N, Smikle S and Zeller D (2012) Marine fisheries of Jamaica: total reconstructed catch 1950-2010. pp. 47-59 In Harper S, Zylich K, Boonzaier L, Le Manach F, Pauly D and Zeller D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part III. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 20(5), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).

Zylich K, Harper S and Zeller D (2012) Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for the Kermadec Islands (1950-2010). pp. 61-67 In Harper S, Zylich K, Boonzaier L, Le Manach F, Pauly D and Zeller D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part III. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 20(5), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).

Ramdeen R, Ponteen A, Harper S and Zeller D (2012) Reconstruction of total marine fisheries catches for Montserrat (1950-2010). pp. 69-76 In Harper S, Zylich K, Boonzaier L, Le Manach F, Pauly D and Zeller D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part III. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 20(5), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).

Zylich K, Harper S, Winkler N and Zeller D (2012) Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for Niue (1950-2010). pp. 77-86 In Harper S, Zylich K, Boonzaier L, Le Manach F, Pauly D and Zeller D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part III. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 20(5), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).

Chaitanya D, Harper S and Zeller D (2012) Reconstruction of total marine fisheries catches for the Pitcairn Islands (1950-2009). pp. 87-94 In Harper S, Zylich K, Boonzaier L, Le Manach F, Pauly D and Zeller D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part III. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 20(5), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).

Boonzaier L, Harper S, Zeller D and Pauly D (2012) A brief history of fishing in the Prince Edward Islands, South Africa, 1950-2010. pp. 95-101 In Harper S, Zylich K, Boonzaier L, Le Manach F, Pauly D and Zeller D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part III. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 20(5), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).

Lingard S, Harper S and Zeller D (2012) Reconstructed catches for Samoa 1950-2010. pp. 103-118 In Harper S, Zylich K, Boonzaier L, Le Manach F, Pauly D and Zeller D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part III. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 20(5), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).

Doyle B, Harper S, Jacquet J and Zeller D (2012) Reconstructing marine fisheries catches in the Solomon Islands: 1950-2009. pp. 119-134 In Harper S, Zylich K, Boonzaier L, Le Manach F, Pauly D and Zeller D (eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands, Part III. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 20(5), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).

Pauly D, Kleisner K, Bhathal B, Boonzaier L, Freire K, Greer K, Hornby C, Lam V, Palomares ML, McCrea Strub A, van der Meer L and Zeller D (2012) Towards increasing fisheries’ contribution to food security. Part I: The potentials of Brazil, Chile, India and the Philippines. Report by the Sea Around Us Project to Oceana, Vancouver. 111 p.

Pauly D, Belhabib D, Cheung W, Cisneros-Montemayor A, Harper S, Lam V, Mai YY, Le Manach F, Mok KM, van der Meer L, Shon S, Swartz W, Sumaila UR, Watson R, Zhai Y and Zeller D (2012) Catches [of the Chinese distant-water fleet] pp. 21-29 & 81-85 In Blomeyer R, Goulding I, Pauly D, Sanz A and K. S (eds.), The role of China in World Fisheries. European Parliament, Directorate General for Internal Policies, Policy Department B: Structural and Cohesion Policies – Fisheries, Brussels.

Palomares, M.L.D., Chaitanya, D., Harper, S., Zeller, D. and Pauly, D. (2011) The marine biodiversity and fisheries catches of the Pitcairn Island group. A report prepared for the Global Ocean Legacy project of the Pew Environment Group by the Sea Around Us Project, Fisheries Centre, Vancouver, 42 p.

BOBLME (2011) Fisheries catches for the Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem since 1950. Report prepared by S. Harper, D. O’Meara, S. Booth, D. Zeller and D. Pauly (Sea Around Us Project). Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem Project, BOBLME-2011-Ecology-16, Phuket, 146 p.

Sumaila, U.R., Dyck, A., Munro, G., Grønbæk, L., Huang, L., Bawumia, M., Arnason, R., Vestergaard, N., Hannesson, R., Chuenpagdee, R., Charles, T., Cheung, W.L., Cisneros-Montemayor, A., Lam, V., Zeller, D., Teh, L., Swartz, W., Pauly, D., Schorr, D. and Watson, R. 2011. Fisheries, investing in natural capital, pp. 77-109 In: UNEP (ed.) Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication. United Nations Environment Programme, New York. www.unep.org/greeneconomy

Biery, L., Palomares, M.L.D., Morissette, L., Cheung, W.W.L., Watson, R., Harper, S., Jacquet, J., Zeller, D. and Pauly, D. (2011) Sharks in the seas around us: How the Sea Around Us Project is working to shape our collective understanding of global shark fisheries. Report by the Sea Around Us Project to the Pew Environment Group, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 54 p.

Lai, S., Felinto, D., Steenbeek, J., Buszowski, J., Valls, A., Watson, R., Zeller, D., Pauly, D. and Christensen, V. 2011. Deriving indicators for Regional Seas. p. 3-9 In Christensen, V., Lai, S., Valls, A., Palomares, M.L.D., Zeller, D. and Pauly, D., (eds.), The state of biodiversity and fisheries in Regional Seas. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 19(3), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Cheung, W.W.L., Lam, V., Sarmiento, J.L., Kearney, K., Watson, R., Zeller, D. and Pauly, D. 2011. Global-warming induced changes in the catch potential of Regional Seas. p. 50-54 In: Christensen, V., Lai, S., Palomares, M.L.D., Zeller, D. and Pauly, D., (eds.), The state of biodiversity and fisheries in Regional Seas. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 19(3), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Cheung, W.W.L., Zeller, D. and Pauly, D. 2011. Projected species shifts due to climate change in the Canadian Marine Ecoregions. Report to Environment Canada, Vancouver, 46 p.

Zeller, D. 2010. Marine Trophic Index. p. 132-133 In: Tyrrell, T., Chenery, A., Bubb, P., Stanwell-Smith, D. and Walpole, M., (eds.), Biodiversity indicators and the 2010 biodiversity target: Outputs, experiences and lessons learnt from the 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership. CBD Technical Series No. 53, Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal.

Zeller, D., Bale, S., Booth, S., Rossing, P., Harper, S. and Pauly, D. 2010. Fisheries catches from the Baltic Sea Large Marine Ecosystem: 1950-2007. p. 5-35 In Rossing, P., Booth, S. and Zeller, D., (eds.), Total marine fisheries extractions by country in the Baltic Sea: 1950-present. Fisheries Centre Research Report 18(1), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Veitch, L., Toliusis, S., Booth, S., Rossing, P., Harper, S. and Zeller, D. 2010. Catch reconstruction for Lithuania in the Baltic Sea from 1950-2007. p. 145-163 In Rossing, P., Booth, S. and Zeller, D., (eds.), Total marine fisheries extractions by country in the Baltic Sea: 1950-present. Fisheries Centre Research Report 18(), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Veitch, L., Booth, S., Harper, S., Rossing, P. and Zeller, D. 2010. Catch reconstruction for Estonia in the Baltic Sea from 1950-2007. p. 61-82 In Rossing, P., Booth, S. and Zeller, D., (eds.), Total marine fisheries extractions by country in the Baltic Sea: 1950-present. Fisheries Centre Research Report 18(1), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Rossing, P., Plikshs, M., Booth, S., Veitch, L. and Zeller, D. 2010. Catch recosntruction for Latvia in the Baltic Sea from 1950-2007. p. 125-143 In Rossing, P., Booth, S. and Zeller, D., (eds.), Total marine fisheries extractions by country in the Baltic Sea: 1950-present. Fisheries Centre Research Report 18(1), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Rossing, P., Hammer, C., Bale, S., Harper, S., Booth, S. and Zeller, D. 2010. Germany’s marine fisheries catches in the Baltic Sea (1950-2007). p. 105-124 In Rossing, P., Booth, S. and Zeller, D., (eds.), Total marine fisheries extractions by country in the Baltic Sea: 1950-present. Fisheries Centre Research Report 18(1), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Rossing, P., Bale, S., Harper, S. and Zeller, D. 2010. Baltic Sea fisheries catches for Finland (1950-2007). p. 83-103 In Rossing, P., Booth, S. and Zeller, D., (eds.), Total marine fisheries extractions by country in the Baltic Sea: 1950-present. Fisheries Centre Research Report 18(1), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Harper, S., Shibaev, S.V., Baryshnikova, O., Rossing, P., Booth, S. and Zeller, D. 2010. Russian fisheries catches in the Baltic Sea from 1950-2007. p. 189-223 In Rossing, P., Booth, S. and Zeller, D., (eds.), Total marine fisheries extractions by country in the Baltic Sea: 1950-present. Fisheries Centre Research Report 18(1), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Bale, S., Rossing, P., Booth, S. and Zeller, D. 2010. Denmark’s marine fisheries catches in the Baltic Sea (1950-2007). p. 37-59 In Rossing, P., Booth, S. and Zeller, D., (eds.), Total marine fisheries extractions by country in the Baltic Sea: 1950-present. Fisheries Centre Research Report 18(1), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Bale, S., Rossing, P., Booth, S., Wowkonowicz, P. and Zeller, D. 2010. Poland’s fisheries catches in the Baltic Sea (1950-2007). p. 165-187 In Rossing, P., Booth, S. and Zeller, D., (eds.), Total marine fisheries extractions by country in the Baltic Sea: 1950-present. Fisheries Centre Research Report 18(1), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Harper, S., Frotté, L., Booth, S., and Zeller, D. 2009. Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for Wallis and Futuna (1950-2007). P. 99-104. In: Zeller, D. and Harper, S. (eds.) Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands Part I. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 17(5). Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia.

Teh, L., Teh, L., Zeller, D. and Cabanban, A. 2009. Historical perspective of Sabah’s marine fisheries. pp. 77-99. In: Zeller, D. and Harper, S. (eds.) Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands Part I Fisheries Centre Reports 17 (5). Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia.

Harper, S., Frotté, L., Bale, S., Booth, S. and Zeller, D. 2009. Reconstruction of total marine fisheries catches for New Caledonia (1950-2007). pp. 67-76. In: Zeller, D. and Harper, S. (eds.) Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands Part I. Fisheries Centre Reports 17 (5). Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia.

Bale, S., Frotté, L., Harper, S. and Zeller, D. 2009. Reconstruction of total marine fisheries catches of French Polynesia (1950-2007). pp. 53-66. In: Zeller, D. and Harper, S. (eds.) Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands part 1. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 17(5). Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia.

Frotté, L., Harper, S., Veitch, L., Booth, S. and Zeller, D. 2009. Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for Martinique, 1950-2007. pp. 21-26. In: Zeller, D. and Harper, S. (eds.) Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands Part I. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 17(5)

Frotté, L., Harper, S., Veitch, L., Booth, S. and Zeller, D. 2009. Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for Guadeloupe from 1950-2007. pp. 13-20. In: Zeller, D. and Harper, S. (eds.) Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands Part I. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 17(5)

Harper, S., Bothwell, J., Bale, S., Booth, S., and Zeller, D. 2009. Cayman Fisheries: 1950-2005., pp.3-12. In: Zeller, D. and Harper, S. (eds.) Fisheries catch reconstructions: Islands Part I. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 17 (5). Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia

Christensen, V., Walters, C., Ahrens, R., Alder, J., Buszowski, J., Christensen, L., Cheung, W.L., Dunne, J., Froese, R., Karpouzi, V., Kastner, K., Kearney, K., Lai, S., Lam, V., Palomares, D., Peters-Mason, A., Piroddi, C., Sarmiento, J.L., Steenbeek, J., Sumaila, R.U., Watson, R., Zeller, D., Pauly, D. 2008. Models of the World’s Large Marine Ecosystems. GEF/LME global project Promoting Ecosystem-based Approaches to Fisheries Conservation and Large Marine Ecosystems, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commissions Technical Series No. 80, iv+43 p. UNESCO.

Booth, S., Zeller, D. and Pauly, D. 2008. Baseline study of marine catches from Arctic Alaska: 1950-2006. Lenfest Ocean Program, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, 15 p.

Booth, S. and Zeller, D. 2008. Marine fisheries catches in arctic Alaska. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 16(9), Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 59 p.

Zeller, D. and Rizzo, Y. 2007. Country disaggregation of catches of the former Soviet Union (USSR). Pp. 157-163 In: Zeller, D. and Pauly, D. (eds.). Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for key countries and regions (1950-2005). Fisheries Centre Research Reports 15(2).

Rizzo, Y. and Zeller, D. 2007. Country disaggregation of catches of formerYugoslavia. Pp. 149-155 In: Zeller, D. and Pauly, D. (eds.). Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for key countries and regions (1950-2005). Fisheries Centre Research Reports 15(2).

Jacquet, J. and Zeller, D. 2007. Putting the ‘United’ in the United Republic of Tanzania: Reconstructing marine fisheries catches. Pp. 49-60 In: Zeller, D. and Pauly, D. (eds.). Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for key countries and regions (1950-2005). Fisheries Centre Research Reports 15(2).

Jacquet, J. and Zeller, D. 2007. National conflict and fisheries: Reconstructing marine fisheries catches for Mozambique. Pp. 35-47 In: Zeller, D. and Pauly, D. (eds.). Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for key countries and regions (1950-2005). Fisheries Centre Research Reports 15(2).

Gascuel, D., Zeller, D., Taleb Sidi, M.O. and Pauly, D. 2007. Reconstructed catches in the Mauritanian EEZ. Pp. 105-119 In: Zeller, D. and Pauly, D. (eds.). Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for key countries and regions (1950-2005). Fisheries Centre Research Reports 15(2).

Wielgus, J., Caicedo-Herrera, D. and Zeller, D. 2007. Reconstruction of Colombia’s fisheries catches. Pp. 69-79 In: Zeller, D. and Pauly, D. (eds.). Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for key countries and regions (1950-2005). Fisheries Centre Research Reports 15(2).

Martell, S.J.D., Korman, J., Darcy, M., Christensen, L.B., and Zeller, D. 2006. Status and trends of the Hawaiian bottomfish stocks: 1948-2004. Report to NOAA-NMFS, Honolulu, Hawaii, 55 pp.

Zeller, D., Booth, S., Lam, V., Lai, S., Close, C. and Pauly, D. 2006. Global dispersion of Dioxin: a Spatial Dynamic Model, with Emphasis on Ocean Deposition, Pages 67-82 In J. Alder and D. Pauly. (eds.) On the multiple Uses of Forage Fish: from Ecosystem to Markets. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 14(3)

Zeller, D., Booth, S. and Pauly, D. 2005. Reconstruction of coral reef- and bottom-fisheries catches for U.S. flag island areas in the Western Pacific, 1950 to 2002. Report to the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, Honolulu, Hawaii, 113 pp.

Pauly, D., Booth, S., Christensen, V., Cheung, W.L., Close, C., Kitchingman, A., Palomares, M.L.D., Watson, R. and Zeller, D. 2005. On the exploitation of elasmobranchs, with emphasis on Cowtail Stingray Pastinachus sephen (Family Dasyatidae). Report to the Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia, 39 pp.

Mendoza J., Booth S. and Zeller D. 2003. Venezuelan marine fisheries catches in space and time: 1950-1999, pp. 171-180. In: D. Zeller, S. Booth, E. Mohammed and D. Pauly (eds.) From Mexico to Brazil: Central Atlantic fisheries catch trends and ecosystem models. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 11(6):171-180.

Baisre J., Booth S. and Zeller D. 2003. Cuban fisheries catches within FAO area 31 (Western Central Atlantic): 1950-1999, pp. 133-140. In: D. Zeller, S. Booth, E. Mohammed and D. Pauly (eds.) From Mexico to Brazil: Central Atlantic fisheries catch trends and ecosystem models. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 11(6):133-140.

Pauly D. and Zeller D. 2003. The global fisheries crisis as a rationale for improving the FAO’s database of fisheries statistics, pp. 1-10. In: D. Zeller, S. Booth, E. Mohammed and D. Pauly (eds.) From Mexico to Brazil: Central Atlantic fisheries catch trends and ecosystem models. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 11(6):1-10

Luckhurst B., Booth S. and Zeller D. 2003. The fisheries of Bermuda, pp. 163-170. In: D. Zeller, S. Booth, E. Mohammed and D. Pauly (eds.) From Mexico to Brazil: Central Atlantic fisheries catch trends and ecosystem models. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 11(6):163-170.

Zeller D. 2003. Ecospace and the Faroe marine ecosystem. In: H. Jákupsstovu (ed.) Workshop on Ecosystem Modelling of Faroese Waters, Tórshavn, September 2002, FRS 2003: 78-80

Zeller D. and Reinert J. 2002. Evaluating spatial closures and effort restrictions in the Faroe Islands marine ecosystem. ACP-EU Fisheries Research Report 12:26.

Zeller D. and Freire K. 2001. A preliminary North-East Atlantic Marine Ecosystem Model: Faroe Islands and ICES Area Vb. In: Guénette, S., Christensen, V. and Pauly D. (eds) Fisheries Impacts on North Atlantic Ecosystems: Models and analyses. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 9(4):207-212.

Pedersen,S. and Zeller, D. 2001. A mass balance model for the West Greenland marine ecosystem. In: Guénette, S., Christensen, V. and Pauly D. (eds) Fisheries Impacts on North Atlantic Ecosystems: Models and analyses. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 9(4): 111-127

Dommasnes, A., Christensen, V., Ellertsen, B., Kvamme, C., Melle, W., Nøttestad, L., Pedersen, T. Tjelmeland, S. and Zeller, D. 2001. An Ecopath model for the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea. In Guénette, S., Christensen, V. and Pauly D. (eds) Fisheries Impacts on North Atlantic Ecosystems: Models and analyses. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 9(4):213-240

Christensen, V., Guénette, S., Heymans, J., Walters, C.J. , Watson, R., Zeller, D. and Pauly, D. 2001. Estimating fish abundance of the North Atlantic, 1950 to 1999. In: Guénette, S., Christensen, V and Pauly, D. (eds.) Fisheries Impacts on North Atlantic Ecosystems: Models and Analyses. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 9(4):1-25

Rejwan, C, Booth, S and Zeller, D 2001. Unreported catches in the Barents Sea and adjacent waters for periods from 1950 to 1998. In Zeller D., Watson R. and Pauly D. (eds). Fisheries Impacts on North Atlantic Ecosystems: Catches, effort and national/regional data sets. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 9(3):99-106

Kaschner, K., Wolff, G. and Zeller, D. 2001. German fisheries: Institutional structure for reporting of catches and fleet statistics (1991-1999). In Zeller D., Watson R. and Pauly D. (eds) Fisheries Impacts on North Atlantic Ecosystems: Catches, effort and national/regional data sets. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 9(3):130-134

Alder, J., Sumaila, U.R., Pitcher, T. and Zeller, D. 2001. Evaluating Marine Protected Areas management: A new modelling approach. In Sumaila, U.R. and Alder, J. (eds) Economics of Marine Protected Areas. Papers, discussions and issues: a conference held at the UBC Fisheries Centre July 2000. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 9(8): 1-10.

Zeller D. and Pauly D. 2000. How life history patterns and depth zone analysis can help fisheries policy. In Pauly D. and Pitcher TJ (eds) Methods for evaluating the impacts of fisheries on North Atlantic ecosystems. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 8(2): 54-63.

Miscellaneous items

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Zeller, D., A. Tavakolie and D. Pauly. 2012. The Sea Around Us project wins UBC award. Sea Around Us Newsletter (68), p. 3.

Zeller, D., Rossing, P. and Harper, S. 2009. Dumb as a cod part II: the case of IUU in the Baltic Sea. The Sea Around Us Project Newsletter 56. Fisheries Centre, UBC, Vancouver.

Rossing, P. and Zeller, D. 2008. Dumb as a cod: Fisheries in the Baltic Sea. The Sea Around Us Project Newsletter 50. Fisheries Centre, UBC, Vancouver.

Zeller, D. 2008. GCFI: Good science and management, but where is the public outreach? The Sea Around Us Project Newsletter 50. Fisheries Centre, UBC, Vancouver.

Zeller, D. and Watson, R. 2008. NCEAS: Finding common ground. The Sea Around Us Project Newsletter 50. Fisheries Centre, UBC, Vancouver.

Zeller, D. 2008. Alaska in winter: Short, cold days and long, even colder nights. A successful arctic catch reconstruction workshop. The Sea Around Us Project Newsletter 45. Fisheries Centre, UBC, Vancouver.

Pauly, D., Alder, J., Booth, S., Cheung, W.W.L., Close, C., Sumaila, U.R., Tavakolie, A., Swartz, W., Watson, R. and Zeller, D. 2007. Large Marine Ecosystems and the Sea Around Us Project. The Sea Around Us Project Newsletter 42. Fisheries Centre, UBC, Vancouver

Zeller, D. 2006. U.S. Western Pacific catch reconstruction part III: Reconstruction completed. The Sea Around Us Project Newsletter 35. Fisheries Centre, UBC, Vancouver.

Zeller, D. and Booth, S. 2005. Regulating mercury: getting the benefits right. Letter to the Editor, Science 310:777.

Zeller, D. 2005. Catch reconstruction and ecosystem science workshop: U.S. Western Pacific – Part II. The Sea Around Us Project Newsletter 28. Fisheries Centre, UBC, Vancouver.

Okey, T.A., Sumaila, U.R. and Zeller, D. 2004. The dynamic steady state economy. Letter to the Editor Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2(8):401.

Zeller, D. 2004. Reconstruction of coral reef fisheries catches for U.S.-associated islands in the Western Pacific Region. The Sea Around Us Project Newsletter 23. Fisheries Centre, UBC, Vancouver.

Watson, R., Alder, J., Booth, S., Christensen, V., Kaschner, K., Kitchingman, A., Lai, S., Palomares, M.L.D., Valdez, F., Zeller, D. and Pauly, D. 2004. Welcome to www.seaaroundus.org: Launching our ‘products’ on the web. The Sea Around Us Project Newsletter 22. Fisheries Centre, UBC, Vancouver.

Marsden, D. and Zeller, D. 2003. 2003 Ocean Management Research Network National Conference. The Sea Around Us Project Newsletter 20. Fisheries Centre, UBC, Vancouver.

Zeller, D. 2003. ICES 2003 Annual Science conference : The Sea Around Us expands its European links. The Sea Around Us Project Newsletter 19. Fisheries Centre, UBC, Vancouver

Zeller, D. and Christensen, V. 2002. Sea Around Us dances with Minister of Fisheries. The Sea Around Us Project Newsletter 14. Fisheries Centre, UBC, Vancouver

Zeller, D. and Watson, R. 2002. The Sea Around Us project goes Down Under. The Sea Around Us Project Newsletter 13. Fisheries Centre, UBC, Vancouver.

Palomares, M.L., Zeller, D., Young, C., Booth, S. and Pauly, D. 2002. A CD-ROM on Northwest African Marine Ecosystems. Presented and released at the Symposium on marine fisheries, ecosystems, and societies in West Africa: half a century of change. Dakar, Senegal.

Zeller, D. and Mohammed, E. 2002. The Sea Around Us project in hot water. The Sea Around Us Project Newsletter 11. Fisheries Centre, UBC, Vancouver.

Okey T. and Zeller D. 2001. Finding solutions to global fisheries woes in the Galapagos. The Sea Around Us Project Newsletter 8. Fisheries Centre, UBC, Vancouver.

Pauly D., Watson R., Zeller D. and Christensen V. 2000. Ecosystems of the North Atlantic: some definitions. The Sea Around Us Project Newsletter 2. Fisheries Centre, UBC, Vancouver.

Zeller D. and Pauly D. 2000. How life history patterns and depth zone analysis can help fisheries policy. The Sea Around Us Project Newsletter 4. Fisheries Centre, UBC, Vancouver.

Zeller D.C. and Russ G.R. 1998. Quantification of flux rates of adult coral reef fishes across reserve boundaries. Fishbytes, Newsletter of the Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Canada

Zeller D.C. 1997. A flying visit from Australia. Fishbytes, Newsletter of the Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Zeller D. 1997. A long way to swim for sex (on the reef). Research Achievements (ARC/DEETYA), Science and Technology Budget Statement 1997, Australian Federal Government, Section 6: 6.6.

Myriam Khalfallah – MSc

July 13, 2015July 13, 2015

Myriam was born and grew up in Tunisia. After high school she studied for two years at the higher institute of preparatory studies in Biology and Geology (ISEP-BG) and was then accepted to the National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia (INAT) where she completed her engineering degree in fisheries and environment. In 2013, Myriam joined The Sea Around Us project to begin working on the catch reconstructions of certain Mediterranean and Arab countries. She is currently working on her master’s degree in fisheries under the supervision of Dr. Daniel Pauly.

Maeve Winchester – Research Assistant

July 6, 2015July 13, 2015

Maeve Winchester has joined the Sea Around Us to assist Krista Greer in the ongoing fishing effort reconstructions, and to research, update and up-grade material used for our new website. She is completing her BSc in biology at UBC and has interests in marine conservation and wildlife rehabilitation.

Growing up on rural vineyards in California and on Vancouver Island has encouraged her to dedicate her life to the preservation of nature. She hopes to eventually pursue her PhD or become David Attenborough’s successor — whichever comes first.

Overall, Maeve is an inspired naturalist, amateur scientific illustrator, and passionate biologist-to-be. She is extremely fond of chondrichthyes and will never turn down an opportunity to exchange fun facts about sharks.

13th Annual FishBase Symposium in Philippines to take place this fall

June 30, 2015June 30, 2015

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A group shot from the 2014 FishBase Symposium that took place at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

The 13^th annual FishBase Symposium will take place September 1, 2015, hosted by the FishBase Information and Research Group, Inc. (FIN) in Los Baños, Philippines to mark the 25^th and 10^th year anniversaries of FishBase and SealifeBase, respectively.

Convened by Drs Mary Ann Bimbao (FIN) and Deng Palomares, Sea Around Us Senior Scientist, the theme for the Symposium is FishBase and SeaLifeBase for Teaching and Research in Aquatic Science. It aims to promote a deeper understanding of why and how FishBase and SeaLifeBase can be used for teaching and research in the Philippines.

Invited speakers come from local universities and research institutions, FishBase Consortium members who themselves use FishBase in teaching ichthyology courses and offer FishBase workshops regularly, and students from universities and secondary schools in the Philippines.

Dr Daniel Pauly, Principal Investigator of the Sea Around Us and co-maker of FishBase will give the keynote address. Dr Dirk Zeller, Sea Around Us Project Manager, will also attend the Symposium.

Other anniversary celebration activities include a poster exhibit of FishBase and SeaLifeBase, a book-giving activity to local libraries, students’ hands-on orientation on FishBase and SeaLifeBase and an art competition expressing underwater relationships and connections.

Schedule of Events:

1 Sept. 2015 (Tuesday): 13^th Annual FishBase Symposium
1-4 Sept. 2015 (Tuesday-Friday): Poster exhibit, Book-giving to libraries, Art competition, Students’ hands-on orientation on FishBase and SeaLifeBase, Media splash
2-4 Sept. 2015 (Wednesday-Friday): FishBase Consortium Annual Meeting

Events Coordinators:

Dr. Maria Lourdes D. Palomares, FIN Associate Scientific Director and Chair of the FishBase Consortium
Dr. Mary Ann P. Bimbao, FIN Executive Director

Eric Sy – Research Assistant

June 26, 2015July 13, 2015

Eric completed his undergraduate degree with a B.Sc. in General Biology at UBC in 2013 and had the opportunity to work for the Changing Oceans Research Unit (CORU). He quickly gained a fascination for marine ecology and pursued a position at Sea Around Us as a Research Assistant in 2014. He has since been a part of the verification process and currently works on data extraction and quality assurance. In his spare time, Eric enjoys the outdoor life; particularly sports and hiking.

Melanie Ang – Research Assistant

June 23, 2015July 13, 2015

Melanie joined Sea Around Us as a Research Assistant in 2014. Her role includes updating catch reconstructions, formatting and editing Fisheries Centre Research Reports and maintaining an updated list of Sea Around Us publications. She graduated with a BSc in Marine Biology from UBC in 2014, and enjoys scuba diving and rock climbing in her spare time.