Other Publications

Conference proceedings, reports, book reviews and other publications

  • Global Fisheries: Livelihood Impact of Overfishing. Fisheries Centre Research Reports, IOF. https://fisheries.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2023/06/FCRR-31-2-MinderooCatchLoss-June5.pdf

  • Working Paper: A rich analysis of the economic, social and environmental effects of harmful fisheries at the ecosystem level https://fisheries.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2022/11/WP2022-04-Sumaila-et-al.Final_.pdf

  • Lange, G.-M., M. W. Beck, V. W. Y. Lam, P. MenĂ©ndez and U. R. Sumaila (2021). Blue Natural Capital: Mangroves and Fisheries. The Changing Wealth of Nations 2021: Managing Assets for the Future, The World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/36400/9781464815904_ch6.pdf

  • Waldron A, Adams V, Allan J, Arnell A, Asner G, Atkinson S, Baccini A, Baillie J, Balmford A, Austin Beau J, Brander L. Sumaila, U.R. (2020) Protecting 30% of the planet for nature: costs, benefits and economic implications.

  • Leape, J., F. Micheli, M. Tigchelaar, E. H. Allison, X. Basurto, A. Bennett, S. R. Bush, L. Cao, B. Crona and F. DeClerck. (2021) “Food Systems Summit Brief Prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group21 for the Food Systems Summit April 15, 2021”. https://sc-fss2021.org/wpcontent/uploads/2021/06/FSS_Brief_Blue_Economy.pdf

  • Skerritt, D. and R. Sumaila. (2021) “Assessing the spatial burden of harmful fisheries subsidies”. https://oceana.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/OceanaDWF_FinalReport.pdf

  • U.R. Sumaila., W. Cheung, L. Teh, A. Bang, T. Cashion, Z. Zeng, J. Alava, S. Clue and Y. Sadovy de Mitcheson. (2021) “Sink or Swim: The future of fisheries in the East and South China Seas”. https://www.admcf.org/research-reports/sink-or-swim/

  • Harper, S., Sumaila, U.R. (2019). Distributional impacts of fisheries subsidies and their reform: case studies from Senegal and Vietnam. IIED Working Paper. IIED, London. Teh, L.S.L., Sumaila, U.R. (2019). Economic and social benefits of fisheries rebuilding: six Canadian case studies. Report for Oceana Canada.

  • Teh, L.S.L., Cashion, T., Cheung, W.W.L., Sumaila, U.R. (2019). Taking stock: status and trends in East China Sea fisheries. In: Teh, L.S.L., Cashion, T., Alava, J.J., Cheung, W.W.L., Sumaila, U.R. (editors). Status, trends, and the future of fisheries in the East and South China Seas. UBC Fisheries Centre Research Reports. 27(1).

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2019). Large marine ecosystems of Asia. In: Teh, L.S.L., Cashion, T., Alava, J.J., Cheung, W.W.L., Sumaila, U.R. (editors). Status, trends, and the future of fisheries in the East and South China Seas. UBC Fisheries Centre Research Reports. 27(1).

  • Cashion, T., Sumaila, U.R. (2019). The impact of biomass fishing for feed on catch and revenues from the East and South China Seas. In: Teh, L.S.L., Cashion, T., Alava, J.J., Cheung, W.W.L., Sumaila, U.R. (editors). Status, trends, and the future of fisheries in the East and South China Seas. UBC Fisheries Centre Research Reports. 27(1).

  • Cashion, T., Alava, J.J., Teh, L.S.L., Cheung, W.W.L., Sumaila, U.R. (2019). Global change and the fate of the East and South China Seas. In: Teh, L.S.L., Cashion, T., Alava, J.J., Cheung, W.W.L., Sumaila, U.R. (editors). Status, trends, and the future of fisheries in the East and South China Seas. UBC Fisheries Centre Research Reports. 27(1).

  • Sumaila, U.R., Tai, T. (2019). Ending overfishing can mitigate impacts of climate change. UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries Working Paper #2019-05. https://fisheries.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2019/11/2019-05-Sumaila_Ending_overfishing.pdf

  • Schuhbauer, A,. Skerritt, D.J., Ebrahim, N., Le Manach, F., Sumaila, U.R. (2019). The global fisheries subsidies divide between small- and large-scale fisheries. UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries Working Paper #2019-06.

  • Konar, M., Gray, E., Thuringer, L., Sumaila, U.R. (2019). The scale of illicit trade in Pacific Ocean marine resources. World Resources Institute. https://www.wri.org/publication/scale-illicit-trade-pacific-ocean-marine-resources.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2019). Climate change: impact on marine ecosystems and world fisheries. Encyclopedia of Food Security and Sustainability. Elsevier. p. 218-222.

  • Lundquist, C.J., Sumaila, U.R., et al. (2018). Visions for nature and nature’s contributions to people for the 21st century. Report from an IPBES visioning workshop held on 4-8 September 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand.

  • Sadovy de Mitcheson, Y., Mangubhai, S., Witter, A., Sumaila, U.R., Kuridrani, N., Batibasaga, A., Waqainabete, P. (2018). Value chain analysis of the Fiji grouper fishery. Report of Science and Conservation of Fish Aggregations (SCRFA), United States.

  • Sumaila, Rashid. (2018). Letters from ambassadors and partners. Hokkaido University Magazine Litterae Populi. Spring Issue.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2018). How to make individual transferable quotas work economically, socially and environmentally. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science.

  • Steiner, N., Cheung, W.W.L., Drost, H., Hoover, C., Lam, J., Miller, L., Cisneros-Montemayor, A., Sou, T., Sumaila, U.R., Suprenand, P., Tai, T., VanderZwaag, D.L. (2018). Changing ocean impacts on the key forage fish species Arctic cod in the Western Canadian Arctic: linking climate model projections to subsistence fisheries. In: Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), editor. AMAP assessment 2018: Arctic Ocean acidification. TromsĂž, Norway. p. 151-185.

  • Froese, R., Winker, H., Gascuel, D., Sumaila, U.R., Pauly, D. (2017). How can we minimize the impact of fishing? Environmental Science Journal for Teens. November:1-4.

  • Sumaila, Rashid. (2017). Small-scale fisheries and WTO subsidies disciplines. The E15 Initiative. http://e15initiative.org/blogs/small-scale-fisheries-and-wto-subsidies-disciplines/.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2017). Scientifically-supported economic incentive approaches for the long term sustainability of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna fisheries. Economic Research Forum Policy Brief No. 27, August.

  • Tai T, Cashion T, Lam VWY, Swartz W, Sumaila U. R.. 2017. Ex-vessel fish price database: disaggregating prices for low-priced species from reduction fisheries. OceanCanada Working Paper Series #2017-2; Vancouver, BC.

  • Gibson D, Sumaila U. R.. (2017). How small-scale are fisheries in British Columbia? OceanCanada Working Paper Series #2017-3; Vancouver, BC.

  • Gibson D, Sumaila U. R.. (2017). Socio-economic contribution of small-scale versus large-scale fisheries in British Columbia. OceanCanada Working Paper Series #2017-5; Vancouver, BC.

  • Bendriem N, Roman R, Gibson D, Sumaila U. R.. (2017). Wild vs. farmed: selected review of a dichotomized status of Coho salmon in British Columbia. OceanCanada Working Paper Series #2017-6; Vancouver, BC.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2017). Scientifically-Supported Economic Incentive Approaches for the long term sustainability of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna fisheries. ©Economic Research Forum Policy Brief No. 27.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2017). Shared Stocks and Fisheries Subsidies Disciplines: Definitions, Catches, and Revenues. International Centre for Trade Sustainable Development (ICTSD).

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2017). Small-scale Fisheries and Subsidies Disciplines: Definitions, Catches, Revenues, and Subsidies. International Centre for Trade Sustainable Development (ICTSD).

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2017). Trade and Sustainable Fisheries. ADBI Working Paper 676. Tokyo: Asian Development Bank Institute. Available: https://www.adb.org/publications/trade-and-sustainable-fisheries.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2016). Trade Policy Options for Sustainable Oceans and Fisheries. E15 Expert Group on Oceans, Fisheries and the Trade System – Policy Options Paper. E15Initiative. Geneva: International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and World Economic Forum.

  • Miller, D., Sumaila, U.R. (2015). Doubly lucky: economic impact of the English Bay bunker oil spill of April 2015. UBC Fisheries Centre Working Paper Series #2015-101; Vancouver, BC. Sumaila, U.R., Cheung, W.W.L. (2015). Boom or bust: the future of fish in the South China Sea. ADM Capital Foundation. Hong Kong: OceanAsia

  • Sumaila, U.R, Teh, L., Zeller, D., Pauly, D. (2015). The global ex-vessel fish price database. Catch reconstructions: concepts, methods and data sources. Online Publication. Sea Around Us, University of British Columbia.

  • Witter, A., Teh, L.S.L., Yin, X.Y., Cheung, W.W.L., Sumaila, U.R.( 2015). Taking stock and projecting the future of South China Sea fisheries. UBC Fisheries Centre Working Paper Series #2015-99; Vancouver, BC.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2014). Christophe Bellmann, and Alice Tipping. Fishing for the Future: Trends and Issues in Global Fisheries Trade. E15Initiative. Geneva: International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and World Economic Forum e15initiative.org/.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2013). Lam, V., Le Manach, F., Swartz, W., and Pauly, D. “Global Fisheries Subsidies.” European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/note/join/2013/513978/IPOL-PECH_NT(2013)513978_EN.pdf

  • Cisneros-Montemayor AM, King JR, McFarlane GA, Sumaila U. R. (2012) Thinking about the effects of shark conservation on BC fisheries. In: McFarlane GA, Arndt U, Cooper E.W.T. Proceedings of the First Pacific Shark Workshop, December 13-15, Vancouver, Canada. TRAFFIC and WWF-Canada, Vancouver. p. 15-16.

  • Hotte, N. and Sumaila, U.R. (2012). Potential economic impact of a tanker spill on ocean-based industries in British Columbia. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 20(7), The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

  • Munro, G., R. Sumaila and B. Turris (2012). Catch Shares, the Theory of Cooperative Games and the Spirit of Elinor Ostrom: A Research Agenda. In: The Economics of Sustainable Fisheries, Aquaculture and Seafood Trade: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, July 16-20, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Edited by Ann L. Shriver. International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET), Corvallis.

  • Cisneros-Montemayor, A.M., Barnes, M., Al-Abdulrazzak, D., Navarro-Holm, E., and Sumaila, U.R. (2012). Global economic value of shark ecotourism: Implications for conservation. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2012-04, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

  • Pauly, D., Belhabib, D., Cheung, W., Cisneros-Montemayor, A., Harper, S., Lam, V., Mai, Y.Y., Le Manach, F., Mok, K.M., van der Meer, L., Shon, S., Swartz, W., Sumaila, U.R., Watson, R., Zhai, L., and Zeller, D. (2012). Catches [of the Chinese distant- water fleet] p. 21-29 & 81-85 In: Blomeyer, I. Goulding, D. Pauly, A. Sanz, and. K. Stobberup. The role of China in World Fisheries. European Parliament, Directorate General for Internal Policies, Policy Department B: Structural and Cohesion Policies – Fisheries. Brussels, 97 p.

  • Ekeland, I., Karp, L. and Sumaila, U.R. (2011). Equilibrium management of fisheries with altruistic overlapping generations. Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, number qt8615756p.

  • Sumaila, U.R. and Bailey, M. (2011). Sequential fishing of western central Pacific Ocean tuna stocks. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2011-02, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

  • Sumaila, U.R., Khan, A.S., Dyck, A.J., Watson, R., Munro, G., Tyedmers, P., Pauly, D. (2011). Subsidies to fisheries in Regional Seas, p. 59-61 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), The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

  • Sumaila, U.R., Khan, A., Dyck, A., Watson, R., Munro, G., Tyedmers, P., and Pauly, D. (2009). A Bottom-up Re-estimation of Global Fisheries Subsidies. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2009-11, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

  • Srinivasan, U.T., Cheung, W.W.L., Watson, R., and Sumaila, U.R. (2009). Global Patterns of Potential Catch and Value Losses due to Overfishing. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2009-10, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

  • Cisneros-Montemayor, A.M. and Sumaila, U.R. (2009). A Global Valuation of Ecosystem-Based Marine Recreation. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2009-09, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

  • Dyck, A.J., and Sumaila, U.R. (2009). Contribution of Ocean Fish Populations to the World Economy. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2009-08, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

  • Sumaila, U.R. and Cheung, W. (2010). Cost of adapting fisheries to climate change. World Bank Discussion Paper Number 5. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank. Washington, DC, U.S.A.

  • Ekeland, I., Pareja, C., and Sumaila, U.R. (2009). Fisheries Management and Intergenerational Equity. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2009-06, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

  • Bailey, M., and Sumaila, U.R. (2008). Towards ecosystem-based management in the Bird’s Head function seascape of Papua, Indonesia: The economic sub-project. Chapter 2 In: Bailey, M. and Pitcher, T.J. (eds) Ecological and economic analyses of marine ecosystems in the Bird’s Head seascape, Papua, Indonesia: II. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 16(1): 186 pp.

  • Bailey, M., and Sumaila, U.R. (2008). Destructive fishing in Raja Ampat, Indonesia: An applied principal-agent analysis. Chapter 3 In: Bailey, M. and Pitcher, T.J. (eds) Ecological and economic analyses of marine ecosystems in the Bird’s Head seascape, Papua, Indonesia: II. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 16(1): 186 pp.

  • Bailey, M. and Sumaila, U.R. (2008). Power in diversity: Bringing people together and putting ideas out. Sea Around Us Project, Issue 49.

  • 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. (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.

  • Amegashie, J.A. and Sumaila, U.R. (2008). A Note on Endogenous Time Preference and the Commons: The Case of the Fishery. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2008-04, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

  • Marsden, D. and R. Sumaila (2008). Canada’s International Marine Fish Trade Since 1950: Volume, Value, and Implications for Conservation. Proceedings of the World Fisheries Congress, Vancouver, 2004, 261-264.

  • Sumaila, U.R., Ishimura, G., Liu, Y. and D. Marsden (2008). Reconciling Fisheries with Conservation and the Valuation of Fishes. Proceedings of the World Fisheries Congress, Vancouver, 2004, 705-706.

  • Sumaila, R. (2008). Getting Values and Valuation Right: A Must for Reconciling Fisheries with Conservation. Proceedings of the World Fisheries congress, Vancouver, 2004, 707-712.

  • Colin, C.W., Munro, G. and R. Sumaila (2008). Subsidies, Decommissioning Schemes, and Their Implication for Effective Fisheries Management. Proceedings of the World Fisheries Congress, Vancouver, 2004, 713-726.

  • Heymans, S.J.J. and Sumaila, U.R. (2007). Updated ecosystem model for the northern Benguela ecosystem, Namibia. pp. 25-70 Le Quesne, W.J.F., Arreguin-Sanchez, F., and Heymans, S.J.J. (eds) INCOFISH ecosystem models: transiting from Ecopath to Ecospace. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 15(6), 188 pages.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2007). Briefing at the United Nations on global fisheries. SAUP Newsletter, 2007

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2007). Fisheries Centre at the World Trade Organization. Fishbytes, 2007.

  • Sumaila, U.R., (2007). Running on empty: Eliminate fuel subsidies to reduce destructive bottom trawling on the high seas. Conservation Magazine, 8: 3, 6-7.

  • Bailey, M., Rotinsulu, C., and Sumaila, U.R. (2007) The Migrant Anchovy Fishery In Kabui Bay, Raja Ampat, Indonesia: Catch, Profitability And Income Distribution. Pages 173–182 in Pitcher, T.J., Ainsworth, C.H., and Bailey, M. (eds) Ecological and Economic Analyses of Marine Ecosystems in the Birds Head Seascape, Papua, Indonesia: I. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 15(5): 182 pp.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2006). Briefing on the Hill on rebuilding overfished stocks in the USA. The Sea Around Us Newsletter, 36, 1-2.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2006). Tony Blair’s bargain-priced flight and the easing of pressure on fish stocks. Fishbytes, 12(3), 1-2.

  • Sumaila, U.R. and Keith, H. (2006). Regulating fisheries subsidies-A role for RFMOs. Bridges Monthly, No. 2, March-April 2006. ICTSD, Geneva: 21-22.

  • Sumaila, U.R. and Pauly, D. (eds) (2006). Catching more bait: A bottom-up re-estimation of global fisheries subsidies. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 14(6), 114 pp. Fisheries Centre, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

  • Sumaila, U.R. and Marsden, D. (eds) (2006). Proceedings of the 2005 North American Association of Fisheries Economists Forum FCRR 2006, 14(1) 220 pp.

  • Abdallah, P. R. and Sumaila, U.R. (2006). A historical account of Brazilian policy on fisheries subsidies. In: Sumaila, U.R., Pauly, D. (eds) Catching more bait: A bottom-up re-estimation of global fisheries subsidies. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 14(6) , pp. 69-78. Fisheries Centre, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

  • Khan, A., Sumaila, U.R., Watson, R., Munro, G., and Pauly, D. (2006). The nature and magnitude of global non-fuel fisheries subsidies. In: Sumaila, U.R. and Pauly, D. (eds) Catching more bait: A bottom-up re-estimation of global fisheries subsidies. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 14(6), p. 1-34. Fisheries Centre, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

  • Sumaila, U.R. and Pauly, D. (2006). Executive Summary. In: Sumaila, U.R. and Pauly, D. (eds) Catching more bait: A bottom-up re-estimation of global fisheries subsidies. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 14(6), p. 2. Fisheries Centre, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

  • Sumaila, U.R., Teh, L., Watson, R., Tyedmers, P., and Pauly, D. (2006). Fuel subsidies to fisheries globally: Magnitude and impacts on resource sustainability. In: Sumaila, U.R. and Pauly, D. (eds) Catching more bait: A bottom-up re-estimation of global fisheries subsidies. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 14(6), pp. 39-49. Fisheries Centre, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

  • Sumaila, U.R., Khan, A., Teh, L., Watson, R., Tyedmers, P., Pauly, D. (2006). Subsidies to high seas bottom trawl fleet and the sustainability of deep sea benthic fish stocks. In: Sumaila, U.R. and Pauly, D. (eds), Catching more bait: A bottom-up re-estimation of global fisheries subsidies. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 14(6), pp. 47-51. Fisheries Centre, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

  • Sumaila, U.R. and Suatoni, L. (2006). Economic Benefits of Rebuilding U.S. Ocean Fish Populations. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2006-04, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

  • Alder, J., Hopkins, S., Cheung, W.W.L., and Sumaila, U.R. (2006). Valuing US Marine Habitats: Fantasy or Fact? Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2006-03, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

  • Sumaila, U.R., Volpe, J.P., and Liu, Y. (2005). Ecological and economic impact assessment of sablefish aquaculture in British Columbia. Fisheries Centre Research Report 13(3), pp. 33.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2005). From Halifax to the White House. The Sea Around Us Project Newsletter, Issue 28, 1-3, contd on page 6.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2005). A global ex-vessel fish price database is born! The Sea Around Us Project Newsletter, Issue 28, 5-6.

  • Sumaila, U.R., Alder, J. and Keith, H. (2004). The cost of being apprehended for fishing illegally: Empirical evidence and policy implications. In: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (Ed.), Fish Piracy: Combating illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris (France), pp. 201-230.

  • Haggan, N., Pitcher, T., and Sumaila, U.R. (2004). Back to the Future in the Strait of Georgia. In: Droscher, T.W. and Fraser, D.A. (eds) Proceedings of the 2003 Georgia Basin/Puget Sound Research Conference. CD-ROM or Online: https://www.psat.wa.gov/Publications/03_proceedings/PAPERS/ORAL/9e_hagga.pdf.

  • 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.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2004). Conference in Honour of Professor Gordon Munro. Fishbytes.

  • Sumaila, U.R. and Alder, J. (2004). IUU fishing, international fisheries organizations and the SAUP. SAUP Newsletter.

  • Marsden, D. and Sumaila, U.R. (2004). International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade Conference. Fishbytes.

  • Alder, J. and Sumaila, U.R. (2004). Fish fingers matter. SAUP Newsletter.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (ed.) (2003). Three essays on the economics of fishing. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 11(3), 33pp.

  • Clark, C.W., Munro, G.R., and Sumaila, U.R. (2003). Subsidies, buybacks and sustainable fisheries. Pages 4 – 18 in Sumaila, U.R. (ed.) Three essays on the economics of fishing. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 11(3).

  • Sumaila, U.R. and Walters, C. (2003). Intergenerational discounting. Pages 19 – 25 in Sumaila, U.R. (ed.) Three essays on the economics of fishing. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 11(3).

  • Ainsworth, C.H. and Sumaila, U.R. (2003). Intergenerational discounting and the conservation of fisheries resources: A case study in Canadian Atlantic cod. Pages 26 – 33 in Sumaila, U.R. (ed.) Three essays on the economics of fishing. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 11(3).

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2003). An economic indicator for monitoring fishing pressure on marine ecosystems. Paper presented at the Sustainability Indicators Workshop, June 2003, Dakar, Senegal (http://filaman.uni-kiel.de/ecofish/reports/rashid.pdf Pitcher,

  • Pitcher, T.J., Heymans, S.J.J., Ainsworth, C., Buchary, E.A., Sumaila, U.R. and Christensen, V. (2003). Opening the lost valley: Implementing a ‘Back To Future’ restoration policy for marine ecosystems and their fisheries. In Knudsen, E.E., D.D. MacDonald, D.D. and Muirhead, J.K. (eds) Fish in the Future? Perspectives on Fisheries Sustainability. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD, USA.

  • Sumaila, U.R., Ninnes, C., and Oelofsen, B. (2003). Management of shared stocks in the Benguela marine ecosystem. FAO Fisheries Report No. 695 Suppl., Rome, 143-158.

  • Sumaila, U.R. and Armstrong, C. (2003). Distributional effects of Marine Protected Areas: A study of the North-East Atlantic cod fishery, Working Paper Series 02/2003, Department of Economics, Norwegian College of Fishery Science, University of TromsĂž, Norway, 2003.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2003). Social scientists go to Globec. Sea Around Us Newsletter, January – February, 2003, pp. 7.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2003). A fish called subsidies. Down to Earth 12 (12), 55.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2003). And Kenneth Arrow was in the audience! Sea Around Us Project Newsletter. March/April (16), 4.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2003). Marine biodiversity meeting, using the past to inform the future: the known, unknown and the unknowable. Sea Around Us Project Newsletter. November/December (20), 3.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2003). Optimal management of Benguela hake stocks: A new partnership. FishBytes 9 (6), 1-2.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2003). Social scientists go to Globec. Sea Around Us Project Newsletter. January/February (15), 7.

  • Sumaila, U.R. and Armstrong, C. (2003). Distributional effects of Marine Protected Areas: A study of the North-East Atlantic cod fishery, Working Paper Series 02/2003, Department of Economics, Norwegian College of Fishery Science, University of TromsĂž, Norway, 2003.

  • Pitcher, T.J., Buchary, E.A., and Sumaila, U.R. (2002) A synopsis of Canadian Fisheries. Published on the Fisheries Centre Web Site at https://www.fisheries.ubc.ca https://www.fisheries.ubc.ca/publications/reports/canada-syn.pdf

  • Armstrong, C., Sumaila, U.R., and Erastus, A. (2002). An assessment of the benefits and costs of the Namibianisation of Namibian fisheries International Symposium: Transformation of South African Fishing Industry, Oktober 2002, Cape Town, SĂžr Afrika.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2002). The fishing enterprise and fisheries management. Fisheries Centre Research Report 10(8), 12-16.

  • Sumaila, U.R. and Watson, R. (2002). The rights to fish – A critique of ITQs. In: Ward, T., Tarte, D., Hegerl, E., and Short, K. (eds) Ecosystem-Based Management for Marine Capture Fisheries: A Policy Direction. WWF Report, 2002 (Box 18).

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2002). Generational cost benefit analysis. In Ward, T., Tarte, D., Hegerl, E., and Short, K. (eds) Ecosystem-based management for marine capture fisheries: A policy direction. WWF Report, 2002 (Box 16).

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2002). Ecosystem restoration. In: Ward, T., Tarte, D., Hegerl, E., and Short, K. Ecosystem-based management for marine capture fisheries: A policy direction. WWF Report, 2002 (Box 15).

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2002). The Fisheries Economics Research Unit (FERU): Reconciling economically viable fisheries with the conservation of aquatic life. Fishbytes, 8(6), 1-2.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2001). How global is world fisheries trade? Sea Around Us Project Newsletter. July/August (10), 3-4.

  • Sumaila, U.R. and Alder, J. (eds) (2001). Economics of marine protected areas. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 9 (8), pp. 250.

  • Pitcher, T.J., Sumaila, U.R. and Pauly, D. (eds) (2001). Fisheries impacts on North Atlantic ecosystems: Evaluations and policy exploration. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 9 (5), pp. 94.

  • Sumaila, U.R., Liu and P. Tyedmers1 (2001). Small Versus Large-Scale Fishing Operations In The North Atlantic. In: Pitcher, T.J., Sumaila, U.R. and Pauly, D. (eds). Fisheries impacts on North Atlantic ecosystems: Evaluations and policy exploration. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 9 (5), pp. 94.

  • Sumaila, U.R., Pitcher, T.J., Haggan, N., and Jones, R. (2001). Evaluating the benefits from restored ecosystems: a Back to the Future Approach. In: Shriver, A.L. and Johnston, R.S. (eds) Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade. Corvallis, Oregon, USA, July 2000. (CD-ROM), pp. 1-7.

  • Sumaila, U.R. and Power, M. (2001). Tuna Cartel: for Ecology and Economics? FishBytes 7 (4).

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2001). Generational cost benefit analysis for evaluating marine ecosystem restoration. In: Pitcher, T.J., Sumaila, U. and Pauly, D. (eds) Fisheries impacts on North Atlantic Ecosystems: Evaluations and Policy Exploration. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 9(5): 94pp.

  • Buchary, E.A., Cheung, W.L., Sumaila, U.R., and Pitcher, T.J. (2001). Back to the Future in Hong Kong: discounting and inter-generational equity in the use of ecosystem resources. Presented to the Marine Biological Association of Hong Kong seminar series, Hong Kong, April 4, 2001.

  • Laryea, S.A. and Sumaila, U.R. (2001). Determinants of inflation in Tanzania. CMI Working Paper WP 2001:12.

  • Sumaila, U.R., Angelsen, A., and Kowero, G. (2001). A system dynamics model for management of miombo woodlands. In: Modelling methods for policy analysis in miombo woodlands. Occasional Paper No. 35, CIFOR, Bogor. pp.17-30.

  • Sumaila, U.R., Chuenpagdee, R., and Vasconcellos, M. (eds) (2000). Proceedings of the INCO-DC International Workshop on markets, global fisheries and local development, Bergen, Norway, 22-23 March 1999. ACP-EU Fish.Res.Rep., (7):115p.

  • Sumaila, U.R. and Munro, G. (2000). Restoration of overexploited capture fishery resources: An economic/Ecosim modeling approach, a ‘Methodology Paper’ of the Sea Around Us. Project (see fisheries.com); (2000). In: Pauly, D. and Pitcher, T.J. (eds) Methods for assessing the impact of fisheries on marine ecosystems of the North Atlantic. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 8(2).

  • Sumaila, U.R. (2000). Biodiversity in a game theoretic model of the fishery. In: Johnston, R.S. and Shriver, A.L. (eds): Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics & Trade, Corvallis, Oregon, USA, 2000.

  • Sumaila, U.R., Chuenpagdee ,R., and Munro, G. (2000). Tracking fisheries landings in the North Atlantic, a ‘Methodology Paper’ of the Sea Around Us. Project (see fisheries.com); (2000). In: Pauly, D. and Pitcher T.J. (eds) Methods for assessing the impact of fisheries on marine ecosystems of the North Atlantic. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 8(2): 114-122.

  • Bjorndal, T., Ussif, A., and Sumaila, U.R. (1999). A bioeconomic analysis of the Norwegian Spring Spawning Herring (NSSH) stock. SNF Working Paper No. A57/99.

  • Sumaila, U.R., Guenette, S., Alder, J., Pollard, D., and Chuenpagdee, R. (1999). Marine protected areas and managing fished ecosystems. CMI Report No. 4, 1999.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (1999.) Fishing gear impacts on the potential economic gains from Namibian hake. CMI Working paper, 1999.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (1999). Pricing down marine food webs. In: Pauly, Christensen, and Coelho (eds) Proceedings of the EXPO’98 Conference on ocean food webs and economic productivity. ACP-EU Fisheries Research Report Number 5, 1999.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (1998). Markets and the fishing down marine food web phenomena. EC Fisheries Cooperation Bulletin, 11, 3-4, September – December.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (1998). Economics of Namibian hake. In Proceedings of the Fisheries Management Seminar hosted by the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (Namibia) in collaboration with the Nansen Programme, Swakopmund, Namibia, 27 –28 August, 1998, pp 38-46.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (1998). Management strategies, economic environment and bioeconomic gains from Namibian hake. Proceedings from the Soria Moria Conference, NFR, Oslo, October, 1998.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (1998). Bioeconomics and the Ecopath/Ecosim framework. In: Daniel Pauly (ed.): Use of Ecopath with Ecosim to evaluate strategies for sustainable exploitation of multi-species resources. Proceedings of a FAO/FC Workshop, Vancouver, Canada. Fisheries Centre Research Reports, 1998 Vol. 6 No. 2.

  • Bonfil, R., Sumaila, U.R., Munro, G., Valtysson, H., Wright, M., Pitcher, T., Preikshot, D., Haggan, N., and Pauly, D. (1998). Impacts of distant water fleets: an ecological, economic and social assessment, p11-111 In: The footprints of distant water fleet on world fisheries. Endangered Seas Campaign, WWF International, Godalming, Surrey, 122 p.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (1997). Fish as vehicle for economic development in post independent Namibia. CMI Working Paper, No. 11, 1997.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (1997). Protected marine reserves as fisheries management tools: A bioeconomic analysis, p. 40 in Objectives and uncertainty in fisheries management with emphasis on three North Atlantic ecosystems. Proceedings of an International Fisheries Symposium Bergen, Norway 3 – 5 June 1997.

  • Kleppe, I.A. and Sumaila, U.R. (1997). Recent economic and social trends in Malawi. Development Studies and Human Rights.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (1996). Cooperative and non-cooperative exploitation of the Arcto-Norwegian cod. In: Hancock and J.P. Beumer (ed.). Developing and sustaining world fisheries resources: The state of science and management. Proceedings (Vol. 1) of the Second World Fisheries Congress, 1996, Brisbane, Australia.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (1996). Uncertainty and the role of economics in reinventing fisheries management. In: Reinventing Fisheries Management. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 1996 Vol. 4 No. 2, p. 63.

  • Sumaila, U.R. (1996). Bioeconomics of a predator-prey system in the Barents Sea. In Babcock (ed.). Graduate student symposium on fish population dynamics and management. Fisheries Research Institute, University of Washington School of Fisheries, FRI-9611, 1996.

  • Pitcher, T., Gillette, V., Lee, T., Mackinson, S., Salas, S., and Sumaila, U.R. (1996). Skeena River Watershed Committee Demonstration Decision Analysis Workshop Report. Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (with Pitcher, T., V. Gillette, T. Lee, S. Mackinson, and S. Salas 1996).

  • Angelsen, A., Fjeldstad, O.H., and Sumaila, U.R. (1994). Project appraisal and sustainability in less developed countries. Chr. Michelsen Institute Report R 1994: 1.

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