Journal Publications

2025

Skerritt, D. J., & Sumaila, U. R. (2026). Updated and expanded analysis of fuel tax concessions for the commercial fishing fleet of the United Kingdom. Marine Policy, 183, 106924. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106924
Rockström, J., Denton, F., Norstrom, A. V., Abrams, J. F., Alam, L., McKay, D. I. A., Bai, X., Bala, G., Boulton, C. A., Broadgate, W., Bunn, S., Buxton, J. E., Cardenas, J., Ylla-Català, R. C., Declerck, F., Davis, N., Dennis, D., Diamond, M. L., Folke, C., … Sumaila, U. R., & Zimm, C. (2025). Charting a transformational course toward a safe and just future: the Earth Commission’s contribution. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.175492980.08779908/v1
Barzuna, C., Haugan, P., Barbière, J., Swift, A., Khan, M., Onwona Ansong, J., James, P. A. S., Scherer, M., Thiele, T., von Schuckmann, K., Abramic, A., Barrowclough, D., Cisneros-Montemayor, A., Girón, A., Heaps, L., Koirala, S., Lyons, M., Paul, K., Tunggal Priyanto, A., … Sumaila, U. R., & Yulianto, I. (2025). Handbook on Sustainable Ocean Plans: A practitioner’s guide. World Resources Institute. https://doi.org/10.69902/8a3c346d
Pereira, L. M., Archibald, S., Selomane, O., Zoeller, K., Armani, M., Kairo, J., Kgope, B., Kimuyu, D. M., Lugendo, B. R., Nicolau, D., Olendo, M. I., Ortega-Cisneros, K., Shannon, L. J., & Sumaila, U. R. (2025). Six principles to get natural climate solutions right in Africa. Nature Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-025-01652-3
Sumaila, U. R., Alam, L., Pradhoshini, K., Flint, R., Singh, P., Billon, P. L., Mosnier, F., Amon, D., Abdallah, P., Aheto, D., Alger, J., Anna, Z., Barnes, C., Fritsch, D., Giron, A., Gjerde, K., Hilmi, N., Karuaihe, S., Levin, L., … Wilson, M. (2025). Deep-sea mining: Superficial riches, deep hidden costs. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-7632394/v1
Peng, D., Zhu, Y., Willer, D. F., Humphries, A., Zhang, S., Zhai, Y., Chu, J., Cheung, W. W. L., & Sumaila, U. R. (2025). Four key reforms to enhance sustainable management of oyster reefs. Cell Reports Sustainability, 2(9), 100484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsus.2025.100484
Sumaila, U. R. & Skerrit, D. (2025). What the WTO’s deal to curb fisheries subsidies means – and what it could achieve. The Conversation. https://doi.org/10.1016/theconversation.265185
Doyen, L., Smith, M. D., Sumaila, U. R., Zaccour, G., Ekeland, I., Cury, P., Lett, C., Thébaud, O., Poggiale, J. ‐C., Moussaoui, A., Fromentin, J. ‐M., Gourguet, S., Guillotreau, P., Gomes, H., Courtois, P., Schaap, R., Blanchard, F., Rainer, C., Tidball, M., … Sari, T. (2025). Mathematical Bio‐Economics 2.0 for Sustainable Fisheries. Natural Resource Modeling, 38(4). https://doi.org/10.1111/nrm.70013
Issifu, I., & Sumaila, U. R. (2025). Is reusable beverage packaging better than single–use plastic? Sustainable Futures, 10, 101275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sftr.2025.101275
Kinyua, D. N., Oyugi, D. O., Wamukota, A., Sumaila, U. R., Ater, S., & Kadagi, N. I. (2025). A supply chain analysis of artisanal billfish fishery along the Kenyan coast. Marine Policy, 180, 106762. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106762
Addo, Adeyemo, Adewumi, Blasiak, Juniper, Owens, Owens, & Sumaila. (2021). Informed selfishness – Practical reflections on building a sustainable ocean economy. Marine Policy, 133, 104735. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104735
Palacios-Abrantes, J., Santos, B. S., Frölicher, T. L., Reygondeau, G., Sumaila, U., Wabnitz, C. C. C., & Cheung, W. W. L. (2025). Climate change drives shifts in straddling fish stocks in the world’s ocean. Science Advances, 11(31). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adq5976
Ospina-Alvarez, de Juan, Cáceres, Sumaila, Sant, Dulvy, Simpfendorfer, García, Niedermüller, & Villasante. (2025). Ocean leadership: Can the European Union influence the global shark meat trade?. Marine Policy, 177, 106659. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106659
Carvalho, A. R., Villasante, S., Lazzari, N., Issifu, I., Kinds, A., Majluf, P., Palomares, M. L., Skerritt, D. J., Alam, L., Lam, V. W. Y., Noleto-Filho, E. M., Reis-Filho, J. A., Teh, L., Teh, L., & Rashid Sumaila, U. (2025). Unequal competition: the fate of domestic fisheries facing distant water fishing in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean. Npj Ocean Sustainability, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-025-00135-4
Ospina-Alvarez, A., de Juan, S., Cáceres, C., Sumaila, U. R., Sant, G., Dulvy, N. K., Simpfendorfer, C. A., García, R., Niedermüller, S., & Villasante, S. (2025). Ocean leadership: Can the European Union influence the global shark meat trade? Marine Policy, 177, 106659. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106659
Roberts, C. M., Dyer, E., Earle, S. A., Forrest, A., Hawkins, J. P., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Meeuwig, J. J., Pauly, D., Pimm, S. L., Sumaila, U. R., Rockström, J., & Lynas, M. (2025). Why we should protect the high seas from all extraction, forever. Nature, 642(8066), 34–37. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01665-0
Oloko, Dahmouni, Le Billon, Teh, Cheung, Sánchez-Jiménez, Issifu, & Sumaila. (2025). Gender dynamics, climate change threats and illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. Discover Sustainability, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43621-025-01227-4
Sumaila, U. R. (2025). How to leverage trade to achieve a 2050 ocean dream. Npj Ocean Sustainability, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-025-00124-7
Bennett, Cisneros-Montemayor, Blythe, Silver, Singh, Andrews, Calò, Christie, Di Franco, Finkbeiner, Gelcich, Guidetti, Harper, Hotte, Kittinger, Le Billon, Lister, López de la Lama, McKinley, Scholtens, Solås, Sowman, Talloni-Álvarez, Teh, Voyer, & Sumaila. (2019). Towards a sustainable and equitable blue economy. Nature Sustainability, 2(11), 991-993. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0404-1
Sumaila, U. R., & Villasante, S. (2025). Surging blue economy, increasing conflict risks and mitigation strategies. Frontiers in Marine Science, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1499386
Bonanni, Cariati, Rinaldi, Marini, D’Arcangelo, Tarantino, & Tancredi. (2024). Trolox and recombinant Irisin as a potential strategy to prevent neuronal damage induced by random positioning machine exposure in differentiated HT22 cells. PLOS ONE, 19(3), e0300888. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0300888
Shea, L. A., Wabnitz, C. C. C., Cheung, W. W. L., Pauly, D., & Sumaila, U. R. (2025). Spatial distribution of fishmeal and fish oil factories around the globe. Science Advances, 11(17). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adr6921
Pereira, Leadley, Proença, Alkemade, Scharlemann, Fernandez-Manjarrés, Araújo, Balvanera, Biggs, Cheung, Chini, Cooper, Gilman, Guénette, Hurtt, Huntington, Mace, Oberdorff, Revenga, Rodrigues, Scholes, Sumaila, & Walpole. (2010). Scenarios for Global Biodiversity in the 21st Century. Science, 330(6010), 1496-1501. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1196624
Alam, L., Pradhoshini, K. P., Flint, R. A., & Sumaila, U. R. (2025). Deep-sea mining and its risks for social-ecological systems: Insights from simulation-based analyses. PLOS ONE, 20(3), e0320888. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0320888
Issifu, Dahmouni, & Sumaila. (2025). Assessing the ecological and economic transformation pathways of plastic production system. Journal of Environmental Management, 374, 124104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.124104
Sora, Wabnitz, Steiner, Sumaila, Hoover, Niemi, Loseto, Lea, Breiter, Palacios-Abrantes, Reygondeau, Farnole, Sou, & Cheung. (2025). Assessing vulnerability of Arctic fish species to climate change. Discover Oceans, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44289-025-00056-7
Maury, O., Tittensor, D. P., Eddy, T. D., Allison, E. H., Bahri, T., Barrier, N., Campling, L., Cheung, W. W. L., Frieler, K., Fulton, E. A., Guillotreau, P., Heneghan, R. F., Lam, V. W. Y., Leclère, D., Lengaigne, M., Lotze-Campen, H., Novaglio, C., Ortega-Cisneros, K., Rault, J., … Blanchard, J. (2025). The Ocean System Pathways (OSPs): A New Scenario and Simulation Framework to Investigate the Future of the World Fisheries. Earth’s Future, 13(3). Portico. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024ef004851
Sumaila, U. (2025) Managing the high seas to achieve Infinity Fish. A Research Agenda for Sustainable Ocean Governance 65-70. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035325757.00016
Schneider, K. R., Remans, R., Bekele, T. H., Aytekin, D., Conforti, P., Dasgupta, S., DeClerck, F., Dewi, D., Fabi, C., Gephart, J. A., Masuda, Y. J., McLaren, R., Saisana, M., Aburto, N., Ambikapathi, R., Arellano Rodriguez, M., Barquera, S., Battersby, J., Beal, T., … Fanzo, J. (2025). Author Correction: Governance and resilience as entry points for transforming food systems in the countdown to 2030. Nature Food, 6(4), 410–411. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01143-w

2024

Galparsoro, Pouso, García-Barón, Mugerza, Mateo, Paradinas, Louzao, Borja, Mandiola, & Murillas. (2024). Predicting important fishing grounds for the small-scale fishery, based on Automatic Identification System records, catches, and environmental data. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 81(3), 453-469. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsae006
Chavez-Molina, V., Miller, S., Teh, L., Sumaila, U. R., Francis, E., & Brooks, C. (2025). Do subsidies drive Southern Ocean fishery operations? A comprehensive analysis of Southern Ocean fishery subsidies and the economics of distant water fleets. Frontiers in Ocean Sustainability, 3. https://doi.org/10.3389/focsu.2025.1499494
Issifu, I., Deffor, E. W., Deyshappriya, N. P. R., Dahmouni, I., & Sumaila, U. R. (2022). Drivers of seafood consumption at different geographical scales. Journal of Sustainability Research, 4(3). https://doi.org/10.20900/jsr20220012
Sumaila, U. R. (2024). Reflections on Breaking Down Silos in Fisheries Science. Fisheries, 49(5), 207–210. https://doi.org/10.1002/fsh.11076
Sumaila, Alam, Abdallah, Aheto, Akintola, Alger, Andreoli, Bailey, Barnes, Ben-Hasan, Brooks, Carvalho, Cheung, Cisneros-Montemayor, Dempsey, Halim, Hilmi, Ilori, Jacquet, Karuaihe, Le Billon, Leape, Martin, Meeuwig, Micheli, Mokhtar, Naylor, Obura, Palomares, Pereira, Rogers, Sequeira, Sogbanmu, Villasante, Zeller, & Pauly. (2024). WTO must complete an ambitious fisheries subsidies agreement. npj Ocean Sustainability, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-024-00042-0
Roberts, Dyer, Earle, Forrest, Hawkins, Hoegh-Guldberg, Meeuwig, Pauly, Pimm, Sumaila, Rockström, & Lynas. (2025). Why we should protect the high seas from all extraction, forever. Nature, 642(8066), 34-37. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01665-0
Kinds, A., Lazzari, N., Skerritt, D. J., Ainsworth, G. B., Carvalho, A. R., Roumbedakis, K., Majluf, P., Palomares, M. L., Sumaila, U. R., & Villasante, S. (2025). Unveiling the hidden hands: Analysis of corporate ownership of industrial tuna fishing vessels in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Marine Policy, 171, 106474. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2024.106474
Mangubhai, S., Olguín-Jacobson, C., Charles, A., Cinner, J., de Vos, A., Graham, R. T., Ishimura, G., Mills, K. E., Naggea, J., Okamoto, D. K., O’Leary, J. K., Salomon, A. K., Rashid Sumaila, U., White, A., & Micheli, F. (2024). COVID-19 highlights the need to improve resilience and equity in managing small-scale fisheries. Npj Ocean Sustainability, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-024-00100-7
Cheung, W. W. L., Pauly, D., & Sumaila, U. R. (2024). Hope or Despair Revisited: Assessing Progress and New Challenges in Global Fisheries. Fish and Fisheries, 26(2), 257–269. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12877
Oloko, A., Teh, L., Le Billon, P., Cheung, W., Harper, S., & Sumaila, U. R. (2024). Making the case for gender-inclusive fisheries governance, policies and climate adaptation. Discover Oceans, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44289-024-00038-1
Cvitanovic, C., Blythe, J., Van Putten, I., Maddison, L., Bopp, L., Brodie, S., Fulton, B. A., Lopes, P. F. M., Pecl, G., Penca, J., & Sumaila, U. R. (2024). Building Successful International Summer Schools to Enhance the Capacity of Marine Early Career Researchers. Ocean and Society, 1. https://doi.org/10.17645/oas.9328
Sumaila, U. R. (2024). Transparency in aquaculture subsidy reporting urgently needed. Science Advances, 10(42). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt5484
Segerson, K., Polasky, S., Scheffer, M., Sumaila, U. R., Cárdenas, J. C., Nyborg, K., Fenichel, E. P., Anderies, J. M., Barrett, S., Bennett, E. M., Carpenter, S. R., Crona, B., Daily, G., de Zeeuw, A., Fischer, J., Folke, C., Kautsky, N., Kremen, C., Levin, S. A., … Weber, E. U. (2024). A cautious approach to subsidies for environmental sustainability. Science, 386(6717), 28–30. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado2615
Peng, D., Liu, H., Zhang, W., Xu, L., Jiang, R., Zhu, Y., García–Lorenzo, I., Chu, J., & Sumaila, U. R. (2024). Global sustainability assessment of cephalopod fisheries based on pressure-state-response framework. IScience, 27(10), 110986. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110986
Roberts, C., Béné, C., Bennett, N., Boon, J. S., Cheung, W. W. L., Cury, P., Defeo, O., De Jong Cleyndert, G., Froese, R., Gascuel, D., Golden, C. D., Hawkins, J., Hobday, A. J., Jacquet, J., Kemp, P., Lam, M. E., Le Manach, F., Meeuwig, J. J., Micheli, F., … O’Leary, B. C. (2024). Rethinking sustainability of marine fisheries for a fast-changing planet. Npj Ocean Sustainability, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-024-00078-2
Vogliano, C., Kennedy, G., Thilsted, S., Mbuya, M. N. N., Battista, W., Sadoff, C., White, G., Kim, J. K., Pucher, J., Koome, K., D’Cruz, G., Geagan, K., Chang, K., Sumaila, U. R., Palmer, S., & Alleway, H. (2024). Regenerative aquatic foods can be a win–win for human and planetary health. Nature Food, 5(9), 718–719. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01043-5
Sequeira, A. M. M., Rashid Sumaila, U., & Rogers, A. A. (2024). Ecosystem services “on the move” as a nature-based solution for financing the Global Biodiversity Framework. Npj Ocean Sustainability, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-024-00073-7
Zeng, Z., Lam, V. W. Y., Sumaila, U. R., & Cheung, W. W. L. (2024). Climate change alters social–ecological trade–offs in achieving ocean futures’ targets. Global Change Biology, 30(8). Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17442
García-Lorenzo, I., Varela-Lafuente, M., Garza-Gil, M. D., & Sumaila, U. R. (2024). Social and solidarity economy in small-scale fisheries: An international analysis. Ocean & Coastal Management, 253, 107166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2024.107166
Predragovic, M., Assis, J., Sumaila, U. R., Gonçalves, J. M. S., Cvitanovic, C., & Horta e Costa, B. (2024). Up to 80% of threatened and commercial species across European marine protected areas face novel climates under high emission scenario. Npj Ocean Sustainability, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-024-00068-4
Sumaila, U. R., Wabnitz, C. C. C., Teh, L. S. L., Teh, L. C. L., Lam, V. W. Y., Sumaila, H., Cheung, W. W. L., Issifu, I., Hopewell, K., Cinner, J. E., Bennett, N. J., Folke, C., Gulati, S., & Polasky, S. (2024). Utilizing basic income to create a sustainable, poverty-free tomorrow. Cell Reports Sustainability, 1(6), 100104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsus.2024.100104
Wong, A., Frommel, A. Y., Sumaila, U. R., & Cheung, W. W. L. (2024). A traits-based approach to assess aquaculture’s contributions to food, climate change, and biodiversity goals. Npj Ocean Sustainability, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-024-00065-7
Sora, K. J., Wabnitz, C. C. C., Steiner, N. S., Sumaila, U. R., Hoover, C., Niemi, A., Loseto, L. L., Li, M.-L., Giang, A., Gillies, E., & Cheung, W. W. L. (2024). Historical climate drivers and species’ ecological niche in the Beaufort Sea food web. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 82(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsae062
Teixeira, G. da S., Halmenschlager, V., Leivas, P. H. S., Abdallah, P. R., Sumaila, U. R., & Silva, L. C. S. (2024). The subsidy program for diesel oil prices for fishing vessels and its impacts on the labor market and fish production in Brazil. Marine Policy, 163, 106102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2024.106102
Schneider, Remans, Bekele, Aytekin, Conforti, Dasgupta, DeClerck, Dewi, Fabi, Gephart, Masuda, McLaren, Saisana, Aburto, Ambikapathi, Arellano Rodriguez, Barquera, Battersby, Beal, Béné, Cafiero, Campeau, Caron, Cattaneo, Candel, Covic, del Pino Alvarez, Dominguez Barreto, Elouafi, Frazier, Fremier, Foley, Golden, Gonzalez Fischer, Guarin, Hendriks, Herforth, Honorati, Huang, Getaneh, Kennedy, Laar, Lal, Lidder, Feye, Loken, Malapit, Marshall, Mulatu, Munguia, Nordhagen, Resnick, Suhardiman, Sumaila, Sun, Mengesha, Torero Cullen, Tubiello, Dooren, Valero Morales, Vivero-Pol, Webb, Wiebe, Haddad, Herrero, Rosero Moncayo, & Fanzo. (2025). Author Correction: Governance and resilience as entry points for transforming food systems in the countdown to 2030. Nature Food, 6(4), 410-411. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01143-w
Pereira, L. M., Gianelli, I., Achieng, T., Amon, D., Archibald, S., Arif, S., Castro, A., Chimbadzwa, T. P., Coetzer, K., Field, T.-L., Selomane, O., Sitas, N., Stevens, N., Villasante, S., Armani, M., Kimuyu, D. M., Adewumi, I. J., Lapola, D. M., Obura, D., … Sumaila, U. R. (2024). Equity and justice should underpin the discourse on tipping points. Earth System Dynamics, 15(2), 341–366. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-341-2024
Pauly, Belhabib, Blomeyer, Cheung, Cisneros‐Montemayor, Copeland, Harper, Lam, Mai, Le Manach, Österblom, Mok, van der Meer, Sanz, Shon, Sumaila, Swartz, Watson, Zhai, & Zeller. (2014). China's distant‐water fisheries in the 21st century. Fish and Fisheries, 15(3), 474-488. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12032
Andersen, N. F., Cavan, E. L., Cheung, W. W. L., Martin, A. H., Saba, G. K., & Sumaila, U. R. (2024). Good fisheries management is good carbon management. Npj Ocean Sustainability, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-024-00053-x

2023

Scherrer, Rousseau, Teh, Sumaila, & Galbraith. (2023). Diminishing returns on labour in the global marine food system. Nature Sustainability, 7(1), 45-52. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01249-8
Kim, Peterson, Cheung, Ferrier, Alkemade, Arneth, Kuiper, Okayasu, Pereira, Acosta, Chaplin-Kramer, den Belder, Eddy, Johnson, Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, Kok, Leadley, Leclère, Lundquist, Rondinini, Scholes, Schoolenberg, Shin, Stehfest, Stephenson, Visconti, van Vuuren, Wabnitz, José Alava, Cuadros-Casanova, Davies, Gasalla, Halouani, Harfoot, Hashimoto, Hickler, Hirsch, Kolomytsev, Miller, Ohashi, Gabriela Palomo, Popp, Paco Remme, Saito, Rashid Sumalia, Willcock, & Pereira. (2023). Towards a better future for biodiversity and people: Modelling Nature Futures. Global Environmental Change, 82, 102681. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102681
Teh, L. S. L., Teh, L. C. L., Giron-Nava, A., & Sumaila, U. R. (2024). Poverty line income and fisheries subsidies in developing country fishing communities. Npj Ocean Sustainability, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-024-00049-7
Schneider, Remans, Bekele, Aytekin, Conforti, Dasgupta, DeClerck, Dewi, Fabi, Gephart, Masuda, McLaren, Saisana, Aburto, Ambikapathi, Arellano Rodriguez, Barquera, Battersby, Beal, Béné, Cafiero, Campeau, Caron, Cattaneo, Candel, Covic, del Pino Alvarez, Dominguez Barreto, Elouafi, Frazier, Fremier, Foley, Golden, Gonzalez Fischer, Guarin, Hendriks, Herforth, Honorati, Huang, Getaneh, Kennedy, Laar, Lal, Lidder, Feye, Loken, Malapit, Marshall, Mulatu, Munguia, Nordhagen, Resnick, Suhardiman, Sumaila, Sun, Mengesha, Torero Cullen, Tubiello, Dooren, Valero Morales, Vivero-Pol, Webb, Wiebe, Haddad, Herrero, Rosero Moncayo, & Fanzo. (2025). Governance and resilience as entry points for transforming food systems in the countdown to 2030. Nature Food, 6(1), 105-116. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01109-4
Issifu, I., Dahmouni, I., García–Lorenzo, I., & Sumaila, U. R. (2024). Economics in Marine Spatial Planning: A Review of Issues in British Columbia and Similar Jurisdictions. Sustainability, 16(3), 1210. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16031210
Mansfield, E. J., Micheli, F., Fujita, R., Fulton, E. A., Gelcich, S., Battista, W., Bustamante, R. H., Cao, L., Daniels, B. N., Finkbeiner, E. M., Gaines, S., Peckham, H., Roche, K., Ruckelshaus, M., Salomon, A. K., Sumaila, U. R., White, C., & Naylor, R. (2024). Anticipating trade-offs and promoting synergies between small-scale fisheries and aquaculture to improve social, economic, and ecological outcomes. Npj Ocean Sustainability, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-023-00035-5
Schneider, K. R., Fanzo, J., Haddad, L., Herrero, M., Moncayo, J. R., Herforth, A., Remans, R., Guarin, A., Resnick, D., Covic, N., Béné, C., Cattaneo, A., Aburto, N., Ambikapathi, R., Aytekin, D., Barquera, S., Battersby, J., Beal, T., Molina, P. B., … Wiebe, K. (2023). The state of food systems worldwide in the countdown to 2030. Nature Food, 4(12), 1090–1110. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00885-9
Andreoli, V., Meeuwig, J. J., Skerritt, D. J., Schuhbauer, A., Sumaila, U. R., & Zeller, D. (2023). Fisheries subsidies exacerbate inequities in accessing seafood nutrients in the Indian Ocean. Npj Ocean Sustainability, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-023-00031-9
Oloko, A., Harper, S., Fakoya, K., & Sumaila, U. R. (2023). The multi-dimensional perspectives of taboos on gender roles of fisherfolk in the Global South. Maritime Studies, 23(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-023-00340-2
Sumaila, U. R. (2023). Reducing the Impact of Subsidies on Fishing Activity: Advances and Challenges. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4652910
Scherrer, K. J. N., Rousseau, Y., Teh, L. C. L., Sumaila, U. R., & Galbraith, E. D. (2023). Diminishing returns on labour in the global marine food system. Nature Sustainability, 7(1), 45–52. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01249-8
Del Santo O’Neill, Rossberg, & Thorpe. (2024). An efficient tool to find multispecies MSY for interacting fish stocks. Fish and Fisheries, 25(3), 441-454. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12817
Sumaila, U. R., Alam, L., Pradhoshini, K., Onifade, T. T., Karuaihe, S. T., Singh, P., Levin, L. A., & Flint, R. (2023). To engage in deep-sea mining or not to engage: what do full net cost analyses tell us? Npj Ocean Sustainability, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-023-00030-w
Frazão Santos, C., Agardy, T., Aheto, D., Allison, E. H., Bennett, N. J., Blythe, J. L., Calado, H., Crowder, L. B., Day, J. C., de Vos, A., Flannery, W., Galparsoro, I., Gissi, E., Gjerde, K. M., Gobin, J. F., Green, S., Isaacs, M., Karuaihe, S. T., Lombard, A. T., … Sumaila, U. R. (2023). Advancing interdisciplinary knowledge for ocean sustainability. Npj Ocean Sustainability, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-023-00026-6
Hilmi, N., Chami, R., Fullenkamp, C., Jafari, M., & Sumaila, U. R. (2023). Editorial: Nature-based solutions, climate mitigation, biodiversity conservation. Frontiers in Climate, 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2023.1308032
Peng, D., Zhu, Y., Shumway, S. E., Chu, J., & Sumaila, U. R. (2023). Supporting Global Blue Economy through Sustainable Molluscan Mariculture with a Focus on China. Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture, 32(1), 152–170. https://doi.org/10.1080/23308249.2023.2260489
Franco, A. C., Kim, H., Frenzel, H., Deutsch, C., Ianson, D., Sumaila, U. R., & Tortell, P. D. (2022). Impact of warming and deoxygenation on the habitat distribution of Pacific halibut in the Northeast Pacific. Fisheries Oceanography, 31(6), 601–614. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/fog.12610
Vogel, J. M., Longo, C., Spijkers, J., Palacios-Abrantes, J., Mason, J., Wabnitz, C. C. C., Cheung, W., Sumaila, U. R., Munro, G., Glaser, S., Bell, J., Tian, Y., Shackell, N. L., Selig, E. R., Le Billon, P., Watson, J. R., Hendrix, C., Pinsky, M. L., van Putten, I., … Fujita, R. (2023). Drivers of conflict and resilience in shifting transboundary fisheries. Marine Policy, 155, 105740. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105740
Vaughan, D., Skerritt, D. J., Duckworth, J., Sumaila, U. R., & Duffy, M. (2023). Revisiting fuel tax concessions (FTCs): The economic implications of fuel subsidies for the commercial fishing fleet of the United Kingdom. Marine Policy, 155, 105763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105763
Kinyua, Oyugi, Wamukota, Sumaila, Ater, & Kadagi. (2025). A supply chain analysis of artisanal billfish fishery along the Kenyan coast. Marine Policy, 180, 106762. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106762
Florko, Shuert, Cheung, Ferguson, Jonsen, Rosen, Sumaila, Tai, Yurkowski, & Auger-Méthé. (2023). Linking movement and dive data to prey distribution models: new insights in foraging behaviour and potential pitfalls of movement analyses. Movement Ecology, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-023-00377-2
Prellezo, R., Da-Rocha, J. M., Palomares, M. L. D., Sumaila, U. R., & Villasante, S. (2023). Building climate resilience, social sustainability and equity in global fisheries. Npj Ocean Sustainability, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-023-00017-7
Predragovic, M., Cvitanovic, C., Karcher, D. B., Tietbohl, M. D., Sumaila, U. R., & Horta e Costa, B. (2023). A systematic literature review of climate change research on Europe’s threatened commercial fish species. Ocean & Coastal Management, 242, 106719. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2023.106719
Sumaila, U. R. (2023). France’s short-haul flight ban to tackle carbon emissions. Nature, 619(7968), 34–34. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02133-3
Bohorquez, J. J., Dvarskas, A., Jacquet, J., Sumaila, U. R., Nye, J. A., & Pikitch, E. K. (2023). A novel framework to evaluate the financial sustainability of marine protected areas. Biological Conservation, 283, 110083. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110083
Dahmouni, I., & Sumaila, R. U. (2023). A dynamic game model for no-take marine reserves. Ecological Modelling, 481, 110360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2023.110360
Alger, J., Le Billon, P., Leinberger, E., & Sumaila, U. R. (2023). What would Article 5.1 of the 2022 WTO Ministerial Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies accomplish? Marine Policy, 153, 105641. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105641
Pereira, L. M., Ortuño Crespo, G., Amon, D. J., Badhe, R., Bandeira, S., Bengtsson, F., Boettcher, M., Carmine, G., Cheung, W. W. L., Chibwe, B., Dunn, D., Gasalla, M. A., Halouani, G., Johnson, D. E., Jouffray, J.-B., Juri, S., Keys, P. W., Lübker, H. M., Merrie, A. S., … Zhou, W. (2023). The living infinite: Envisioning futures for transformed human-nature relationships on the high seas. Marine Policy, 153, 105644. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105644
Cao, L., Halpern, B. S., Troell, M., Short, R., Zeng, C., Jiang, Z., Liu, Y., Zou, C., Liu, C., Liu, S., Liu, X., Cheung, W. W. L., Cottrell, R. S., DeClerck, F., Gelcich, S., Gephart, J. A., Godo-Solo, D., Kaull, J. I., Micheli, F., … Tigchelaar, M. (2023). Vulnerability of blue foods to human-induced environmental change. Nature Sustainability, 6(10), 1186–1198. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01156-y
Kim, H., Franco, A. C., & Sumaila, U. R. (2023). A Selected Review of Impacts of Ocean Deoxygenation on Fish and Fisheries. Fishes, 8(6), 316. https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes8060316
Liu, Y., Cao, L., Cheung, W. W. L., & Sumaila, U. R. (2023). Global estimates of suitable areas for marine algae farming. Environmental Research Letters, 18(6), 064028. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acd398
Skerritt, D. J., Schuhbauer, A., Villasante, S., Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Bennett, N. J., Mallory, T. G., Lam, V. W. L., Arthur, R. I., Cheung, W. W. L., Teh, L. S. L., Roumbedakis, K., Palomares, M. L. D., & Sumaila, U. R. (2023). Mapping the unjust global distribution of harmful fisheries subsidies. Marine Policy, 152, 105611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105611
Alam, L., Zolkaply, S. Z., Sumaila, U. R., Rusydy, I., Kutty, A. A., Bari, Md. A., Mokhtar, M., Pradhoshini, K. P., Krishnakumar, S., & Musthafa, M. S. (2023). Risk of extinction, variability in fish species composition, and factors influencing fish biodiversity in the Malacca Strait. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 31(29), 41355–41369. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-27101-2
Yu, L., Tan, X., Guan, X., Mu, Y., Lam, V., & Sumaila, R. (2023). Value chain of the data-poor Chinese bay scallop aquaculture. Marine Policy, 150, 105556. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105556
Pereira, Gianelli, Achieng, Amon, Archibald, Arif, Castro, Chimbadzwa, Coetzer, Field, Selomane, Sitas, Stevens, Villasante, Armani, Kimuyu, Adewumi, Lapola, Obura, Pinho, Roa-Clavijo, Rocha, & Sumaila. (2024). Equity and justice should underpin the discourse on tipping points. Earth System Dynamics, 15(2), 341-366. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-341-2024
Crona, B. I., Wassénius, E., Jonell, M., Koehn, J. Z., Short, R., Tigchelaar, M., Daw, T. M., Golden, C. D., Gephart, J. A., Allison, E. H., Bush, S. R., Cao, L., Cheung, W. W. L., DeClerck, F., Fanzo, J., Gelcich, S., Kishore, A., Halpern, B. S., Hicks, C. C., … Wabnitz, C. C. C. (2023). Four ways blue foods can help achieve food system ambitions across nations. Nature, 616(7955), 104–112. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05737-x
Peng, D., Mu, Y., Zhu, Y., Chu, J., & Sumaila, U. R. (2023). Insights from Chinese Mariculture Development to Support Global Blue Growth. Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture, 31(4), 453–457. https://doi.org/10.1080/23308249.2023.2167515
Pacoureau, N., Carlson, J. K., Kindsvater, H. K., Rigby, C. L., Winker, H., Simpfendorfer, C. A., Charvet, P., Pollom, R. A., Barreto, R., Sherman, C. S., Talwar, B. S., Skerritt, D. J., Sumaila, U. R., Matsushiba, J. H., VanderWright, W. J., Yan, H. F., & Dulvy, N. K. (2023). Conservation successes and challenges for wide-ranging sharks and rays. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(5). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2216891120
Seto, K., Easterday, K., Aheto, D., Asiedu, G., Sumaila, U. R., & Gaynor, K. (2023). Evidence of spatial competition, over resource scarcity, as a primary driver of conflicts between small-scale and industrial fishers. Ecology and Society, 28(1). https://doi.org/10.5751/es-13650-280106

2022

Palacios‐Abrantes, Frölicher, Reygondeau, Sumaila, Tagliabue, Wabnitz, & Cheung. (2022). Timing and magnitude of climate‐driven range shifts in transboundary fish stocks challenge their management. Global Change Biology, 28(7), 2312-2326. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16058
Issifu, I., Dahmouni, I., Deffor, E. W., & Sumaila, U. R. (2023). Diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Blue Economy: Why they matter and how do we achieve them? Frontiers in Political Science, 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2022.1067481
Leape, Micheli, Tigchelaar, Allison, Basurto, Bennett, Bush, Cao, Crona, DeClerck, Fanzo, Gelcich, Gephart, Golden, Hicks, Kishore, Koehn, Little, Naylor, Selig, Short, Sumaila, Thilsted, Troell, & Wabnitz. (2023). The Vital Roles of Blue Foods in the Global Food System. Science and Innovations for Food Systems Transformation, 401-419. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15703-5_21
Sinan, H., Willis, C., Swartz, W., Sumaila, U. R., Forsdyke, R., Skerritt, D. J., Le Manach, F., Colléter, M., & Bailey, M. (2022). Subsidies and allocation: A legacy of distortion and intergenerational loss. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2022.1044321
Sora, K. J., Wabnitz, C. C. C., Steiner, N. S., Sumaila, U. R., Cheung, W. W. L., Niemi, A., Loseto, L. L., Li, M.-L., Giang, A., Gillies, E., & Hoover, C. (2022). Evaluation of the Beaufort Sea shelf structure and function in support of the Tarium Niryutait Marine Protected Area. Arctic Science, 8(4), 1252–1275. https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2020-0040
Sumaila, Cisneros-Montemayor, Dyck, Huang, Cheung, Jacquet, Kleisner, Lam, McCrea-Strub, Swartz, Watson, Zeller, & Pauly. (2012). Impact of the Deepwater Horizon well blowout on the economics of US Gulf fisheries. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 69(3), 499-510. https://doi.org/10.1139/f2011-171
Brooks, C. M., Ainley, D. G., Jacquet, J., Chown, S. L., Pertierra, L. R., Francis, E., Rogers, A., Chavez-Molina, V., Teh, L., & Sumaila, U. R. (2022). Protect global values of the Southern Ocean ecosystem. Science, 378(6619), 477–479. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add9480
Gallagher, A. J., Brownscombe, J. W., Alsudairy, N. A., Casagrande, A. B., Fu, C., Harding, L., Harris, S. D., Hammerschlag, N., Howe, W., Huertas, A. D., Kattan, S., Kough, A. S., Musgrove, A., Payne, N. L., Phillips, A., Shea, B. D., Shipley, O. N., Sumaila, U. R., Hossain, M. S., & Duarte, C. M. (2022). Tiger sharks support the characterization of the world’s largest seagrass ecosystem. Nature Communications, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33926-1
Hicks, C. C., Gephart, J. A., Koehn, J. Z., Nakayama, S., Payne, H. J., Allison, E. H., Belhbib, D., Cao, L., Cohen, P. J., Fanzo, J., Fluet-Chouinard, E., Gelcich, S., Golden, C. D., Gorospe, K. D., Isaacs, M., Kuempel, Caitlin. D., Lee, K. N., MacNeil, M. A., Maire, E., … Naylor, R. L. (2022). Rights and representation support justice across aquatic food systems. Nature Food, 3(10), 851–861. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00618-4
Asiedu, B., Okpei, P., Amponsh, S. K. K., Failler, P., Deme, B., & Sumaila, R. U. (2022). The people’s fishery in perspective: Current analysis of the small pelagic fishery value chain of Ghana. Fisheries Research, 254, 106426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2022.106426
Kadagi, N. I., Wambiji, N., Mann, B., Parker, D., Daly, R., Thoya, P., Rato, D. A. M., Halafo, J., Gaspare, L., Sweke, E. A., Ahmed, S., Raseta, S. B., Osore, M., Maina, J., Glaser, S., Ahrens, R., & Sumaila, U. R. (2022). Status and challenges for sustainable billfish fisheries in the Western Indian Ocean. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 32(4), 1035–1061. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-022-09725-8
Cheung, W. W. L., Palacios-Abrantes, J., Frölicher, T. L., Palomares, M. L., Clarke, T., Lam, V. W. Y., Oyinlola, M. A., Pauly, D., Reygondeau, G., Sumaila, U. R., Teh, L. C. L., & Wabnitz, C. C. C. (2022). Rebuilding fish biomass for the world’s marine ecoregions under climate change. Global Change Biology, 28(21), 6254–6267. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16368
Georgian, S., Hameed, S., Morgan, L., Amon, D. J., Sumaila, U. R., Johns, D., & Ripple, W. J. (2022). Scientists’ warning of an imperiled ocean. Biological Conservation, 272, 109595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109595
Teh, L. C. L., Cheung, W. W. L., & Sumaila, R. (2022). Assessing the Economic Contribution of Ocean-Based Activities Using the Pacific Coast of British Columbia as a Case Study. Sustainability, 14(14), 8662. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14148662
Millage, K. D., Saccomanno, V. R., Warham, M. M., Rubino, L. L., Schuhbauer, A., Sumaila, U. R., & Costello, C. (2022). SubsidyExplorer: A decision-support tool to improve our understanding of the ecological and economic effects of reforming fisheries subsidies. PLoS ONE, 17(6), e0265829. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265829
Tigchelaar, M., Leape, J., Micheli, F., Allison, E. H., Basurto, X., Bennett, A., Bush, S. R., Cao, L., Cheung, W. W. L., Crona, B., DeClerck, F., Fanzo, J., Gelcich, S., Gephart, J. A., Golden, C. D., Halpern, B. S., Hicks, C. C., Jonell, M., Kishore, A., … Wabnitz, C. C. C. (2022). The vital roles of blue foods in the global food system. Global Food Security, 33, 100637. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2022.100637
Sumaila, U. R., Walsh, M., Hoareau, K., Cox, A., Teh, L., Abdallah, P., Akpalu, W., Anna, Z., Benzaken, D., Crona, B., Fitzgerald, T., Heaps, L., Issifu, I., Karousakis, K., Lange, G. M., Leland, A., Miller, D., Sack, K., Shahnaz, D., … Zhang, J. (2022). Author Correction: Financing a sustainable ocean economy. Nature Communications, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29418-x
Dahmouni, I., & Sumaila, U. R. (2022). A Dynamic Model for No-Take Marine Reserves. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4065243
Rahman, L. F., Marufuzzaman, M., Alam, L., Bari, M. A., Sumaila, U. R., & Sidek, L. M. (2022). Application of Machine Learning to Investigate the Impact of Climatic Variables on Marine Fish Landings. National Academy Science Letters, 45(3), 245–248. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40009-022-01110-0

2021

Issifu, I., Alava, J. J., Lam, V. W. Y., & Sumaila, U. R. (2022). Impact of Ocean Warming, Overfishing and Mercury on European Fisheries: A Risk Assessment and Policy Solution Framework. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.770805
Villasante, S., Sumaila, U. R., Da-Rocha, J. M., Carvalho, N., Skerritt, D. J., Schuhbauer, A., Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Bennett, N. J., Hanich, Q., & Prellezo, R. (2022). Strengthening European Union fisheries by removing harmful subsidies. Marine Policy, 136, 104884. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104884
Vergara-Solana, F., Peñalosa-Martinell, D., Skerritt, D., Mejaes, A., Ponce-Diaz, G., Aranceta-Garza, F., González-Laxe, F., Seijo, J. C., & Sumaila, U. R. (2022). Volatility and vulnerability in Mexican fisheries and aquaculture: Enhancing resilience via public policy. Marine Policy, 136, 104888. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104888
Villasante, S., Gianelli, I., Castrejón, M., Nahuelhual, L., Ortega, L., Sumaila, U. R., & Defeo, O. (2022). Social-ecological shifts, traps and collapses in small-scale fisheries: Envisioning a way forward to transformative changes. Marine Policy, 136, 104933. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104933
Fanzo, J., Haddad, L., Schneider, K., Béné, C., Covic, N., Guarin, A., ... Moncayo, J. (2022) Corrigendum to “Viewpoint: Rigorous monitoring is necessary to guide food system transformation in the countdown to the 2030 global goals” [Food Policy 104 (2021) 100784]. Food Policy 107 102233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2022.102233
Bohorquez, J. J., Dvarskas, A., Jacquet, J., Sumaila, U. R., Nye, J., & Pikitch, E. K. (2022). A New Tool to Evaluate, Improve, and Sustain Marine Protected Area Financing Built on a Comprehensive Review of Finance Sources and Instruments. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.742846
Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Sinan, H., Nguyen, T., Da Rocha, J. M., Sumaila, U. R., Skerritt, D. J., Schuhbauer, A., Sanjurjo, E., & Bailey, M. (2022). A constructive critique of the World Trade Organization draft agreement on harmful fisheries subsidies. Marine Policy, 135, 104872. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104872
Jin, X., Zhou, S., Sumaila, U. R., Yin, K., & Lv, X. (2021). Coevolution of Economic and Industrial Linkages within the Land-Sea Industrial Structure of China. Water, 13(23), 3452. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13233452
Dahmouni, & Sumaila. (2021). A Two-Stage Fishery Game with an Aquaculture Facility. Trends in Mathematics, 79-97. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93616-7_4
Alam, L., Sumaila, U. R., Bari, M. A., Rusydy, I., Musthafa, M. S., & Mokhtar, M. (2021). Investigating fish contamination scenario and community willingness to adopt consumption advice proposing an advisory option. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 29(16), 24167–24179. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-17715-9
Laffoley, D., Baxter, J. M., Amon, D. J., Claudet, J., Downs, C. A., Earle, S. A., Gjerde, K. M., Hall‐Spencer, J. M., Koldewey, H. J., Levin, L. A., Reid, C. P., Roberts, C. M., Sumaila, R. U., Taylor, M. L., Thiele, T., & Woodall, L. C. (2021). The forgotten ocean: Why COP26 must call for vastly greater ambition and urgency to address ocean change. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 32(1), 217–228. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3751
Perry, Ommer, Barange, Jentoft, Neis, & Sumaila. (2011). Marine social-ecological responses to environmental change and the impacts of globalization. Fish and Fisheries, 12(4), 427-450. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-2979.2010.00402.x
Chavez-Molina, Miller, Teh, Sumaila, Francis, & Brooks. (2025). Do subsidies drive Southern Ocean fishery operations? A comprehensive analysis of Southern Ocean fishery subsidies and the economics of distant water fleets. Frontiers in Ocean Sustainability, 3. https://doi.org/10.3389/focsu.2025.1499494
Sumaila, Skerritt, Schuhbauer, Villasante, Cisneros-Montemayor, Sinan, Burnside, Abdallah, Abe, Addo, Adelsheim, Adewumi, Adeyemo, Adger, Adotey, Advani, Afrin, Aheto, Akintola, Akpalu, Alam, Alava, Allison, Amon, Anderies, Anderson, Andrews, Angelini, Anna, Antweiler, Arizi, Armitage, Arthur, Asare, Asche, Asiedu, Asuquo, Badmus, Bailey, Ban, Barbier, Barley, Barnes, Barrett, Basurto, Belhabib, Bennett, Bennett, Benzaken, Blasiak, Bohorquez, Bordehore, Bornarel, Boyd, Breitburg, Brooks, Brotz, Campbell, Cannon, Cao, Cardenas Campo, Carpenter, Carpenter, Carson, Carvalho, Castrejón, Caveen, Chabi, Chan, Chapin, Charles, Cheung, Christensen, Chuku, Church, Clark, Clarke, Cojocaru, Copeland, Crawford, Crépin, Crowder, Cury, Cutting, Daily, Da-Rocha, Das, de la Puente, de Zeeuw, Deikumah, Deith, Dewitte, Doubleday, Duarte, Dulvy, Eddy, Efford, Ehrlich, Elsler, Fakoya, Falaye, Fanzo, Fitzsimmons, Flaaten, Florko, Aviles, Folke, Forrest, Freeman, Freire, Froese, Frölicher, Gallagher, Garcon, Gasalla, Gephart, Gibbons, Gillespie, Giron-Nava, Gjerde, Glaser, Golden, Gordon, Govan, Gryba, Halpern, Hanich, Hara, Harley, Harper, Harte, Helm, Hendrix, Hicks, Hood, Hoover, Hopewell, Horta e Costa, Houghton, Iitembu, Isaacs, Isahaku, Ishimura, Islam, Issifu, Jackson, Jacquet, Jensen, Ramon, Jin, Jonah, Jouffray, Juniper, Jusoh, Kadagi, Kaeriyama, Kaiser, Kaiser, Kakujaha-Matundu, Karuaihe, Karumba, Kemmerly, Khan, Kimani, Kleisner, Knowlton, Kotowicz, Kurien, Kwong, Lade, Laffoley, Lam, Lam, Lange, Latif, Le Billon, Le Brenne, Le Manach, Levin, Levin, Limburg, List, Lombard, Lopes, Lotze, Mallory, Mangar, Marszalec, Mattah, Mayorga, McAusland, McCauley, McLean, McMullen, Meere, Mejaes, Melnychuk, Mendo, Micheli, Millage, Miller, Mohamed, Mohammed, Mokhtar, Morgan, Muawanah, Munro, Murray, Mustafa, Nayak, Newell, Nguyen, Noack, Nor, Nunoo, Obura, Okey, Okyere, Onyango, Oostdijk, Orlov, Österblom, Owens, Owens, Oyinlola, Pacoureau, Pakhomov, Abrantes, Pascual, Paulmier, Pauly, Pèlèbè, Peñalosa, Pennino, Peterson, Pham, Pinkerton, Polasky, Polunin, Prah, Ramírez, Relano, Reygondeau, Robadue, Roberts, Rogers, Roumbedakis, Sala, Scheffer, Segerson, Seijo, Seto, Shogren, Silver, Singh, Soszynski, Splichalova, Spring, Stage, Stephenson, Stewart, Sultan, Suttle, Tagliabue, Tall, Talloni-Álvarez, Tavoni, Taylor, Teh, Teh, Thiebot, Thiele, Thilsted, Thumbadoo, Tigchelaar, Tol, Tortell, Troell, Uzmanoğlu, van Putten, van Santen, Villaseñor-Derbez, Wabnitz, Walsh, Walsh, Wambiji, Weber, Westley, Williams, Wisz, Worm, Xiao, Yagi, Yamazaki, Yang, & Zeller. (2021). WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies. Science, 374(6567), 544-544. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abm1680
Fanzo, J., Haddad, L., Schneider, K. R., Béné, C., Covic, N. M., Guarin, A., Herforth, A. W., Herrero, M., Sumaila, U. R., Aburto, N. J., Amuyunzu-Nyamongo, M., Barquera, S., Battersby, J., Beal, T., Bizzotto Molina, P., Brusset, E., Cafiero, C., Campeau, C., Caron, P., … Rosero Moncayo, J. (2021). Viewpoint: Rigorous monitoring is necessary to guide food system transformation in the countdown to the 2030 global goals. Food Policy, 104, 102163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2021.102163
Cheung, W. W. L., Frölicher, T. L., Lam, V. W. Y., Oyinlola, M. A., Reygondeau, G., Sumaila, U. R., Tai, T. C., Teh, L. C. L., & Wabnitz, C. C. C. (2021). Marine high temperature extremes amplify the impacts of climate change on fish and fisheries. Science Advances, 7(40). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abh0895
Issifu, I., Deffor, E. W., & Sumaila, U. R. (2021). How COVID-19 Could Change the Economics of the Plastic Recycling Sector. Recycling, 6(4), 64. https://doi.org/10.3390/recycling6040064
Rahman, L. F., Alam, L., Marufuzzaman, M., & Sumaila, U. R. (2021). Traceability of Sustainability and Safety in Fishery Supply Chain Management Systems Using Radio Frequency Identification Technology. Foods, 10(10), 2265. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods10102265
Naylor, R. L., Kishore, A., Sumaila, U. R., Issifu, I., Hunter, B. P., Belton, B., Bush, S. R., Cao, L., Gelcich, S., Gephart, J. A., Golden, C. D., Jonell, M., Koehn, J. Z., Little, D. C., Thilsted, S. H., Tigchelaar, M., & Crona, B. (2021). Blue food demand across geographic and temporal scales. Nature Communications, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25516-4
Short, R. E., Gelcich, S., Little, D. C., Micheli, F., Allison, E. H., Basurto, X., Belton, B., Brugere, C., Bush, S. R., Cao, L., Crona, B., Cohen, P. J., Defeo, O., Edwards, P., Ferguson, C. E., Franz, N., Golden, C. D., Halpern, B. S., Hazen, L., … Zhang, W. (2021). Harnessing the diversity of small-scale actors is key to the future of aquatic food systems. Nature Food, 2(9), 733–741. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-021-00363-0
Tigchelaar, M., Cheung, W. W. L., Mohammed, E. Y., Phillips, M. J., Payne, H. J., Selig, E. R., Wabnitz, C. C. C., Oyinlola, M. A., Frölicher, T. L., Gephart, J. A., Golden, C. D., Allison, E. H., Bennett, A., Cao, L., Fanzo, J., Halpern, B. S., Lam, V. W. Y., Micheli, F., Naylor, R. L., … Troell, M. (2021). Compound climate risks threaten aquatic food system benefits. Nature Food, 2(9), 673–682. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-021-00368-9
Witter, A., Murray, G., & Sumaila, U. R. (2021). Consumer seafood preferences related to alternative food networks and their value chains. Marine Policy, 131, 104694. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104694
Florko, K. R. N., Tai, T. C., Cheung, W. W. L., Ferguson, S. H., Sumaila, U. R., Yurkowski, D. J., & Auger-Méthé, M. (2021). Predicting how climate change threatens the prey base of Arctic marine predators. Ecology Letters, 24(12), 2563–2575. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13866
Sanjurjo-Rivera, E., Mesnick, S. L., Ávila-Forcada, S., Poindexter, O., Lent, R., Felbab-Brown, V., Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Squires, D., Sumaila, U. R., Munro, G., Ortiz-Rodriguez, R., Rodriguez, R., & Sainz, J. F. (2021). An Economic Perspective on Policies to Save the Vaquita: Conservation Actions, Wildlife Trafficking, and the Structure of Incentives. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.644022
Jin, X., Sumaila, U. R., Yin, K., & Qi, Z. (2021). Evaluation of the Policy Effect of China’s Environmental Interview System for Effective Air Quality Governance. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(17), 9006. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18179006
Rahman, L. F., Marufuzzaman, M., Alam, L., Bari, M. A., Sumaila, U. R., & Sidek, L. M. (2021). Developing an Ensembled Machine Learning Prediction Model for Marine Fish and Aquaculture Production. Sustainability, 13(16), 9124. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13169124
Arthur, R. I., Skerritt, D. J., Schuhbauer, A., Ebrahim, N., Friend, R. M., & Sumaila, U. R. (2021). Small-scale fisheries and local food systems: Transformations, threats and opportunities. Fish and Fisheries, 23(1), 109–124. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12602
Bennett, N. J., Ban, N. C., Schuhbauer, A., Splichalova, D.-V., Eadie, M., Vandeborne, K., McIsaac, J., Angel, E., Charleson, J., Gavenus, E. R., Harper, S., Satterfield, T., Sutcliffe, T., & Sumaila, R. (2021). Access rights, capacities and benefits in small-scale fisheries: Insights from the Pacific Coast of Canada. Marine Policy, 130, 104581. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104581
Tai, T. C., Sumaila, U. R., & Cheung, W. W. L. (2021). Ocean Acidification Amplifies Multi-Stressor Impacts on Global Marine Invertebrate Fisheries. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.596644
Machado, F. L. V., Halmenschlager, V., Abdallah, P. R., Teixeira, G. da S., & Sumaila, U. R. (2021). The relation between fishing subsidies and CO2 emissions in the fisheries sector. Ecological Economics, 185, 107057. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107057
Sumaila, U. R., Walsh, M., Hoareau, K., Cox, A., Teh, L., Abdallah, P., Akpalu, W., Anna, Z., Benzaken, D., Crona, B., Fitzgerald, T., Heaps, L., Issifu, I., Karousakis, K., Lange, G. M., Leland, A., Miller, D., Sack, K., Shahnaz, D., … Zhang, J. (2021). Financing a sustainable ocean economy. Nature Communications, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23168-y
Helm, R. R., Clark, N., Harden-Davies, H., Amon, D., Girguis, P., Bordehore, C., Earle, S., Gibbons, M. J., Golbuu, Y., Haddock, S. H. D., Houghton, J. D. R., Javidpour, J., McCauley, D. J., Morgan, L., Obura, D., Pakhomov, E. A., Pitt, K. A., Ramon, J. J., Sumaila, R., & Thiebot, J.-B. (2021). Protect high seas biodiversity. Science, 372(6546), 1048–1049. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj0581
Peñalosa Martinell, D., Vergara-Solana, F. J., Araneda Padilla, M., Ponce Díaz, G., Mejaes, A., Varela Lafuente, M. M., & Sumaila, U. R. (2021). Social effects of energy subsidies and taxes on CO2 emissions: The case of Mexican aquaculture public policies. Marine Policy, 128, 104481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104481
Skerritt, D. J., & Sumaila, U. R. (2021). Broadening the global debate on harmful fisheries subsidies through the use of subsidy intensity metrics. Marine Policy, 128, 104507. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104507
Andrews, N., Bennett, N. J., Le Billon, P., Green, S. J., Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Amongin, S., Gray, N. J., & Sumaila, U. R. (2021). Oil, fisheries and coastal communities: A review of impacts on the environment, livelihoods, space and governance. Energy Research & Social Science, 75, 102009. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102009
Giron-Nava, A., Lam, V. W. Y., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Cheung, W. W. L., Halpern, B. S., Sumaila, U. R., & Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M. (2021). Sustainable fisheries are essential but not enough to ensure well-being for the world’s fishers. Fish and Fisheries, 22(4), 812–821. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12552
Sumaila, U. R., Pierucci, A., Oyinlola, M., Cannas, R., Froese, R., Glasser, S., Jacquet, J., Kaiser, B., Issifu, I., Micheli, F., Naylor, R. L., & Pauly, D. (2021). Aquaculture Over-Optimism. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3802024
Yu, L., Ma, L., Lam, V., Guan, X., Zhao, Y., Wang, S., Mu, Y., & Sumaila, R. (2021). Local marine policy whacking the national Zhikong scallop fishery. Marine Policy, 124, 104352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104352

2020

Costello, C., Millage, K., Eisenbarth, S., Galarza, E., Ishimura, G., Rubino, L. L., Saccomanno, V., Sumaila, U. R., & Strauss, K. (2020). Correction to: Ambitious subsidy reform by the WTO presents opportunities for ocean health restoration. Sustainability Science, 16(3), 1069–1069. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-020-00900-z
Sumaila, U. R., Palacios-Abrantes, J., & Cheung, W. W. L. (2020). Climate change, shifting threat points, and the management of transboundary fish stocks. Ecology and Society, 25(4). https://doi.org/10.5751/es-11660-250440
Palacios-Abrantes, J., Sumaila, U. R., & Cheung, W. W. L. (2020). Challenges to transboundary fisheries management in North America under climate change. Ecology and Society, 25(4). https://doi.org/10.5751/es-11743-250441
Sumaila, U. R., & VanderZwaag, D. L. (2020). Canada and transboundary fisheries management in changing oceans: taking stock, future scenarios. Ecology and Society, 25(4). https://doi.org/10.5751/es-12209-250444
Zeller, D., Hood, L., Palomares, M. L. D., Sumaila, U. R., Khalfallah, M., Belhabib, D., Woroniak, J., & Pauly, D. (2020). Comparative fishery yields of African Large Marine Ecosystems. Environmental Development, 36, 100543. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2020.100543
Issifu, I., & Sumaila, U. R. (2020). A Review of the Production, Recycling and Management of Marine Plastic Pollution. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 8(11), 945. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse8110945
Schuhbauer, A., Skerritt, D. J., Ebrahim, N., Le Manach, F., & Sumaila, U. R. (2020). The Global Fisheries Subsidies Divide Between Small- and Large-Scale Fisheries. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.539214
Costello, C., Millage, K., Eisenbarth, S., Galarza, E., Ishimura, G., Rubino, L. L., Saccomanno, V., Sumaila, U. R., & Strauss, K. (2020). Ambitious subsidy reform by the WTO presents opportunities for ocean health restoration. Sustainability Science, 16(4), 1391–1396. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-020-00865-z
Sumaila, & Villasante. (2025). Surging blue economy, increasing conflict risks and mitigation strategies. Frontiers in Marine Science, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1499386
Jin, X., Sumaila, U. R., & Yin, K. (2020). Direct and Indirect Loss Evaluation of Storm Surge Disaster Based on Static and Dynamic Input-Output Models. Sustainability, 12(18), 7347. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12187347
Skerritt, D. J., Arthur, R., Ebrahim, N., Le Brenne, V., Le Manach, F., Schuhbauer, A., Villasante, S., & Sumaila, U. R. (2020). A 20-year retrospective on the provision of fisheries subsidies in the European Union. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 77(7–8), 2741–2752. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsaa142
Teh, L. S. L., & Sumaila, U. R. (2020). Assessing potential economic benefits from rebuilding depleted fish stocks in Canada. Ocean & Coastal Management, 195, 105289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2020.105289.
Rashid Sumaila, U., & Lam, V. W. Y. (2020). Climate change and British Columbia’s staple seafood supply and prices. In Environmental Assessments. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788976879.00020
Abbott, & Sumaila. (2019). Reducing Marine Plastic Pollution: Policy Insights from Economics. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 13(2), 327-336. https://doi.org/10.1093/reep/rez007
Bellido, J. M., Sumaila, U. R., Sánchez-Lizaso, J. L., Palomares, M. L., & Pauly, D. (2020). Input versus output controls as instruments for fisheries management with a focus on Mediterranean fisheries. Marine Policy, 118, 103786. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2019.103786
Bendriem, N., Roman, R., & Sumaila, U. R. (2020). Enhancing land-based culture of coho salmon through genomic technologies: An economic analysis. Aquaculture Economics & Management, 25(1), 27–52. https://doi.org/10.1080/13657305.2020.1793822
Chan, K. M. A., Boyd, D. R., Gould, R. K., Jetzkowitz, J., Liu, J., Muraca, B., Naidoo, R., Olmsted, P., Satterfield, T., Selomane, O., Singh, G. G., Sumaila, R., Ngo, H. T., Boedhihartono, A. K., Agard, J., de Aguiar, A. P. D., Armenteras, D., Balint, L., Barrington–Leigh, C., … Brondízio, E. S. (2020). Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability. People and Nature, 2(3), 693–717. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10124
Lau, Shiran, Bailey, Cook, Stuchtey, Koskella, Velis, Godfrey, Boucher, Murphy, Thompson, Jankowska, Castillo Castillo, Pilditch, Dixon, Koerselman, Kosior, Favoino, Gutberlet, Baulch, Atreya, Fischer, He, Petit, Sumaila, Neil, Bernhofen, Lawrence, & Palardy. (2020). Evaluating scenarios toward zero plastic pollution. Science, 369(6510), 1455-1461. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba9475
Sumaila, U. R., & Tai, T. C. (2020). End Overfishing and Increase the Resilience of the Ocean to Climate Change. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00523
Mendenhall, E., Hendrix, C., Nyman, E., Roberts, P. M., Hoopes, J. R., Watson, J. R., Lam, V. W. Y., & Sumaila, U. R. (2020). Climate change increases the risk of fisheries conflict. Marine Policy, 117, 103954. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.103954
Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Ota, Y., Bailey, M., Hicks, C. C., Khan, A. S., Rogers, A., Sumaila, U. R., Virdin, J., & He, K. K. (2020). Changing the narrative on fisheries subsidies reform: Enabling transitions to achieve SDG 14.6 and beyond. Marine Policy, 117, 103970. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.103970
Peñalosa Martinell, D., Cashion, T., Parker, R., & Sumaila, U. R. (2020). Closing the high seas to fisheries: Possible impacts on aquaculture. Marine Policy, 115, 103854. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.103854
Ben-Hasan, A., Walters, C., Christensen, V., Munro, G., Sumaila, U. R., & Al-Baz, A. (2020). Age-structured bioeconomic model for strategic interaction: an application to pomfret stock in the Arabian/Persian Gulf. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 77(5), 1787–1795. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsaa049
Cinner, J. E., Zamborain-Mason, J., Gurney, G. G., Graham, N. A. J., MacNeil, M. A., Hoey, A. S., Mora, C., Villéger, S., Maire, E., McClanahan, T. R., Maina, J. M., Kittinger, J. N., Hicks, C. C., D’agata, S., Huchery, C., Barnes, M. L., Feary, D. A., Williams, I. D., Kulbicki, M., … Mouillot, D. (2020). Meeting fisheries, ecosystem function, and biodiversity goals in a human-dominated world. Science, 368(6488), 307–311. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax9412
Teh, L. S. L., Cashion, T., Cheung, W. W. L., & Sumaila, U. R. (2020). Taking stock: a Large Marine Ecosystem perspective of socio-economic and ecological trends in East China Sea fisheries. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 30(2), 269–292. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-020-09599-8
Harper, S., Adshade, M., Lam, V. W. Y., Pauly, D., & Sumaila, U. R. (2020). Valuing invisible catches: Estimating the global contribution by women to small-scale marine capture fisheries production. PLOS ONE, 15(3), e0228912. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228912

2019

Hernández-García, J. A., & Sumaila, U. R. (2019). Impact of the 2015-2016 El Niño on the Peruvian fisheries sector. Marine Policy, 102, 103601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2019.103601
Sumaila, U., Zeller, D., Hood, L., Palomares, M., Li, Y., & Pauly, D. (2020) Illicit trade in marine fish catch and its effects on ecosystems and people worldwide. Science Advances 6(9) . https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz3801.
Dempsey, J., Martin, T. G., & Sumaila, U. R. (2020). Subsidizing extinction? Conservation Letters, 13(1). Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12705
Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Ishimura, G., Munro, G. R., & Sumaila, U. R. (2020). Ecosystem-based management can contribute to cooperation in transboundary fisheries: The case of pacific sardine. Fisheries Research, 221, 105401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2019.105401
Sumaila, U. R., Skerritt, D., Schuhbauer, A., Ebrahim, N., Li, Y., Kim, H. S., Mallory, T. G., Lam, V. W. L., & Pauly, D. (2019). A global dataset on subsidies to the fisheries sector. Data in Brief, 27, 104706. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.104706
Thiault, L., Mora, C., Cinner, J. E., Cheung, W. W. L., Graham, N. A. J., Januchowski-Hartley, F. A., Mouillot, D., Sumaila, U. R., & Claudet, J. (2019). Escaping the perfect storm of simultaneous climate change impacts on agriculture and marine fisheries. Science Advances, 5(11). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaw9976
Singleton, R. L., Allison, E. H., Gough, C., Kamat, V., LeBillon, P., Robson, L., & Sumaila, U. R. (2019). Conservation, contraception and controversy: Supporting human rights to enable sustainable fisheries in Madagascar. Global Environmental Change, 59, 101946. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.101946
Sumaila, U. R., Ebrahim, N., Schuhbauer, A., Skerritt, D., Li, Y., Kim, H. S., Mallory, T. G., Lam, V. W. L., & Pauly, D. (2019). Updated estimates and analysis of global fisheries subsidies. Marine Policy, 109, 103695. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2019.103695
Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., & Sumaila, U. R. (2019). Busting myths that hinder an agreement to end harmful fisheries subsidies. Marine Policy, 109, 103699. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2019.103699
Sumaila. (2025). How to leverage trade to achieve a 2050 ocean dream. npj Ocean Sustainability, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-025-00124-7
Bendriem, N., Roman, R., Gibson, D., & Sumaila, U. R. (2019). A review of the fate of southern British Columbia coho salmon over time. Fisheries Research, 218, 10–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2019.04.002
Tai, T. C., Steiner, N. S., Hoover, C., Cheung, W. W. L., & Sumaila, U. R. (2019). Evaluating present and future potential of arctic fisheries in Canada. Marine Policy, 108, 103637. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2019.103637
Laffoley, D., Baxter, J. M., Amon, D. J., Currie, D. E. J., Downs, C. A., Hall–Spencer, J. M., Harden–Davies, H., Page, R., Reid, C. P., Roberts, C. M., Rogers, A., Thiele, T., Sheppard, C. R. C., Sumaila, R. U., & Woodall, L. C. (2019). Eight urgent, fundamental and simultaneous steps needed to restore ocean health, and the consequences for humanity and the planet of inaction or delay. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 30(1), 194–208. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3182
Bennett, N. J., Blythe, J., Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Singh, G. G., & Sumaila, U. R. (2019). Just Transformations to Sustainability. Sustainability, 11(14), 3881. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11143881
Kleiven, A. R., Moland, E., & Sumaila, U. R. (2019). No fear of bankruptcy: the innate self-subsidizing forces in recreational fishing. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 77(6), 2304–2307. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsz128
Sumaila, U. R., Villasante, S., & Le Manach, F. (2019). Fisheries subsidies wreck ecosystems, don’t bring them back. Nature, 571(7763), 36–36. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02054-0
Lam, Allison, Bell, Blythe, Cheung, Frölicher, Gasalla, & Sumaila. (2020). Climate change, tropical fisheries and prospects for sustainable development. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 1(9), 440-454. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-020-0071-9
Hanich, Q., Rotjan, R., Aqorau, T., Bailey, M., Campbell, B., Gray, N., Gruby, R., Hampton, J., Ota, Y., Parris, H., Reid, C., Sumaila, U. R., & Swartz, W. (2018). Unraveling the blue paradox: Incomplete analysis yields incorrect conclusions about Phoenix Islands Protected Area closure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(52). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1815600115
Ben-Hasan, A., Walters, C., & Sumaila, U. R. (2019). Effects of Management on the Profitability of Seasonal Fisheries. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00310
Talloni-Álvarez, N. E., Sumaila, U. R., Le Billon, P., & Cheung, W. W. L. (2019). Climate change impact on Canada’s Pacific marine ecosystem: The current state of knowledge. Marine Policy, 104, 163–176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2019.02.035
Popova, E., Vousden, D., Sauer, W. H. H., Mohammed, E. Y., Allain, V., Downey-Breedt, N., Fletcher, R., Gjerde, K. M., Halpin, P. N., Kelly, S., Obura, D., Pecl, G., Roberts, M., Raitsos, D. E., Rogers, A., Samoilys, M., Sumaila, U. R., Tracey, S., & Yool, A. (2019). Ecological connectivity between the areas beyond national jurisdiction and coastal waters: Safeguarding interests of coastal communities in developing countries. Marine Policy, 104, 90–102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2019.02.050
Schuhbauer, A., Cisneros-Montemayor, A., Chuenpagdee, R., & Sumaila, U. (2019). Assessing the economic viability of small-scale fisheries: an example from Mexico. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 617–618, 365–376. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12942
Sumaila, U. R. (2019). Comparative valuation of fisheries in Asian Large Marine Ecosystems with emphasis on the East China Sea and South China Sea LMEs. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 163, 96–101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2018.12.008
Steiner, N., Cheung, W., Cisneros-Montemayor, A., Drost, H., Hayashida, H., Hoover, C., ... VanderZwaag, D. (2019) Impacts of the Changing Ocean-Sea Ice System on the Key Forage Fish Arctic Cod (Boreogadus Saida) and Subsistence Fisheries in the Western Canadian Arctic—Evaluating Linked Climate, Ecosystem and Economic (CEE) Models. Frontiers in Marine Science 6 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00179
Sakai, Y., Yagi, N., & Sumaila, U. R. (2019). Fishery subsidies: the interaction between science and policy. Fisheries Science, 85(3), 439–447. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12562-019-01306-2
Belhabib, D., Sumaila, U. R., & Le Billon, P. (2019). The fisheries of Africa: Exploitation, policy, and maritime security trends. Marine Policy, 101, 80–92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.12.021
Stephenson, R. L., Wiber, M., Paul, S., Angel, E., Benson, A., Charles, A., Chouinard, O., Edwards, D., Foley, P., Lane, D., McIsaac, J., Neis, B., Parlee, C., Pinkerton, E., Saunders, M., Squires, K., & Sumaila, U. R. (2019). Integrating diverse objectives for sustainable fisheries in Canada. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 76(3), 480–496. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2017-0345
Sumaila, U. R., Tai, T. C., Lam, V. W. Y., Cheung, W. W. L., Bailey, M., Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Chen, O. L., & Gulati, S. S. (2019). Benefits of the Paris Agreement to ocean life, economies, and people. Science Advances, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau3855
Meirelles Felizola Freire, K., & Rashid Sumaila, U. (2019). ECONOMIC POTENTIAL OF THE BRAZILIAN MARINE RECREATIONAL FISHERY. Boletim Do Instituto de Pesca, 45(1). https://doi.org/10.20950/1678-2305.2019.45.1.412
Sumaila, U. R. (2019). A Carding System as an Approach to Increasing the Economic Risk of Engaging in IUU Fishing? Frontiers in Marine Science, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00034
Teh, L. S. L., Bond, N., KC, K., Fraser, E., Seng, R., & Sumaila, U. R. (2019). The economic impact of global change on fishing and non-fishing households in the Tonle Sap ecosystem, Pursat, Cambodia. Fisheries Research, 210, 71–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2018.10.005

2018

Cashion, T., de la Puente, S., Belhabib, D., Pauly, D., Zeller, D., & Sumaila, U. R. (2018). Establishing company level fishing revenue and profit losses from fisheries: A bottom-up approach. PLOS ONE, 13(11), e0207768. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207768
Tickler, D., Meeuwig, J., Bryant, K., David, F., Forrest, J., Gordon, E., ... Zeller, D. (2018) Modern slavery and the race to fish. Nature Communications 9(1) . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07118-9
Ben-Hasan, A., Walters, C., Louton, R., Christensen, V., Sumaila, U. R., & Al-Foudari, H. (2018). Fishing-effort response dynamics in fisheries for short-lived invertebrates. Ocean & Coastal Management, 165, 33–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2018.08.019
Outeiro, L., Villasante, S., & Sumaila, R. (2018). Estimating fishers’ net income in small-scale fisheries: Minimum wage or average wage? Ocean & Coastal Management, 165, 307–318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2018.09.002
Mangin, T., Costello, C., Anderson, J., Arnason, R., Elliott, M., Gaines, S. D., Hilborn, R., Peterson, E., & Sumaila, R. (2018). Are fishery management upgrades worth the cost? PLOS ONE, 13(9), e0204258. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204258
Bennett, N., Kaplan-Hallam, M., Augustine, G., Ban, N., Belhabib, D., Brueckner-Irwin, I., ... Bailey, M. (2018) Coastal and Indigenous community access to marine resources and the ocean: A policy imperative for Canada. Marine Policy 87 186-193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2017.10.023
Felizola Freire, K., Rashid Sumaila, U., Pauly, D., & Adelino, G. (2018). The offshore recreational fisheries of northeastern Brazil. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 46(4), 765–778. https://doi.org/10.3856/vol46-issue4-fulltext-14
Alava, J. J., Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Sumaila, U. R., & Cheung, W. W. L. (2018). Projected amplification of food web bioaccumulation of MeHg and PCBs under climate change in the Northeastern Pacific. Scientific Reports, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-31824-5
Harper, S., Salomon, A. K., Newell, D., Waterfall, P. H., Brown, K., Harris, L. M., & Sumaila, U. R. (2018). Indigenous women respond to fisheries conflict and catalyze change in governance on Canada’s Pacific Coast. Maritime Studies, 17(2), 189–198. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-018-0101-0
Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Cashion, T., Miller, D. D., Tai, T. C., Talloni-Álvarez, N., Weiskel, H. W., & Sumaila, U. R. (2018). Achieving sustainable and equitable fisheries requires nuanced policies not silver bullets. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2(9), 1334–1334. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0633-0
Anonymous (2018) Fraser River and many others. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2018-232-rc3
Singh, G. G., Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Swartz, W., Cheung, W., Guy, J. A., Kenny, T.-A., McOwen, C. J., Asch, R., Geffert, J. L., Wabnitz, C. C. C., Sumaila, R., Hanich, Q., & Ota, Y. (2018). A rapid assessment of co-benefits and trade-offs among Sustainable Development Goals. Marine Policy, 93, 223–231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2017.05.030
Stephenson, R., Paul, S., Wiber, M., Angel, E., Benson, A., Charles, A., ... Sumaila, U. (2018) Evaluating and implementing social–ecological systems: A comprehensive approach to sustainable fisheries. Fish and Fisheries 19(5) 853-873. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12296
Cinner, J., Maire, E., Huchery, C., MacNeil, M., Graham, N., Mora, C., ... Mouillot, D. (2018) Gravity of human impacts mediates coral reef conservation gains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(27) . https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1708001115
Sala, E., Mayorga, J., Costello, C., Kroodsma, D., Palomares, M. L. D., Pauly, D., Sumaila, U. R., & Zeller, D. (2018). The economics of fishing the high seas. Science Advances, 4(6). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aat2504
Pennino, M. G., Rufener, M.-C., Thomé-Souza, M. J. F., Carvalho, A. R., Lopes, P. F. M., & Sumaila, U. R. (2018). Searching for a compromise between biological and economic demands to protect vulnerable habitats. Scientific Reports, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-26130-z
Sala, E., Lubchenco, J., Grorud-Colvert, K., Novelli, C., Roberts, C., & Sumaila, U. R. (2018). Assessing real progress towards effective ocean protection. Marine Policy, 91, 11–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.02.004
Jaung, W., Bull, G. Q., Sumaila, U. R., Markum, & Putzel, L. (2018). Estimating water user demand for certification of forest watershed services. Journal of Environmental Management, 212, 469–478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.02.042
Miller, D., Ota, Y., Sumaila, U., Cisneros‐Montemayor, A., & Cheung, W. (2018) Adaptation strategies to climate change in marine systems. Global Change Biology 24(1) . https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13829

2017

Roberts, C. M., O’Leary, B. C., McCauley, D. J., Cury, P. M., Duarte, C. M., Lubchenco, J., Pauly, D., Sáenz-Arroyo, A., Sumaila, U. R., Wilson, R. W., Worm, B., & Castilla, J. C. (2017). Marine reserves can mitigate and promote adaptation to climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(24), 6167–6175. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1701262114
Sumaila, U. R., Rodriguez, C. M., Schultz, M., Sharma, R., Tyrrell, T. D., Masundire, H., Damodaran, A., Bellot-Rojas, M., Rosales, R. M. P., Jung, T. Y., Hickey, V., Solhaug, T., Vause, J., Ervin, J., Smith, S., & Rayment, M. (2017). Investments to reverse biodiversity loss are economically beneficial. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 29, 82–88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2018.01.007
Teh, L. S., Cheung, W. W., Christensen, V., & Sumaila, U. (2017). Can we meet the Target? Status and future trends for fisheries sustainability. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 29, 118–130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2018.02.006
Gibson, D., & Sumaila, U. (2017) Determining the degree of 'small-scaleness' using fisheries in British Columbia as an example. Marine Policy 86 121-126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2017.09.015
Tai, T. C., Cashion, T., Lam, V. W. Y., Swartz, W., & Sumaila, U. R. (2017). Ex-vessel Fish Price Database: Disaggregating Prices for Low-Priced Species from Reduction Fisheries. Frontiers in Marine Science, 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00363
Singleton, R. L., Allison, E. H., Le Billon, P., & Sumaila, U. R. (2017). Conservation and the right to fish: International conservation NGOs and the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries. Marine Policy, 84, 22–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2017.06.026
Abe, K., Ishimura, G., Tsurumi, T., Managi, S., & Sumaila, U. R. (2017). Does trade openness reduce a domestic fisheries catch? Fisheries Science, 83(6), 897–906. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12562-017-1130-0
Hilmi, N., Safa, A., Sumalia, U. R., & Cinar, M. (2017). Coral reefs management and decision making tools. Ocean & Coastal Management, 146, 60–66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2017.06.006
Watson, R. A., Nichols, R., Lam, V. W. Y., & Sumaila, U. R. (2017). Global seafood trade flows and developing economies: Insights from linking trade and production. Marine Policy, 82, 41–49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2017.04.017
Schuhbauer, A., Chuenpagdee, R., Cheung, W. W. L., Greer, K., & Sumaila, U. R. (2017). How subsidies affect the economic viability of small-scale fisheries. Marine Policy, 82, 114–121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2017.05.013
Andrello, M., Guilhaumon, F., Albouy, C., Parravicini, V., Scholtens, J., Verley, P., Barange, M., Sumaila, U. R., Manel, S., & Mouillot, D. (2017). Global mismatch between fishing dependency and larval supply from marine reserves. Nature Communications, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms16039
Alava, J. J., Cheung, W. W. L., Ross, P. S., & Sumaila, U. R. (2017). Climate change–contaminant interactions in marine food webs: Toward a conceptual framework. Global Change Biology, 23(10), 3984–4001. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13667
Yu, L. Q. J., Mu, Y., Zhao, Z., Lam, V. W. Y., & Sumaila, U. R. (2017). Economic challenges to the generalization of integrated multi-trophic aquaculture: An empirical comparative study on kelp monoculture and kelp-mollusk polyculture in Weihai, China. Aquaculture, 471, 130–139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2017.01.015
Harper, S., Grubb, C., Stiles, M., & Sumaila, U. R. (2017). Contributions by Women to Fisheries Economies: Insights from Five Maritime Countries. Coastal Management, 45(2), 91–106. https://doi.org/10.1080/08920753.2017.1278143
Sumaila, U. R. (2010). A Cautionary Note on Individual Transferable Quotas. Ecology and Society, 15(3). https://doi.org/10.5751/es-03391-150336
Swartz, W., Schiller, L., Rashid Sumaila, U., & Ota, Y. (2017). Searching for market-based sustainability pathways: Challenges and opportunities for seafood certification programs in Japan. Marine Policy, 76, 185–191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2016.11.009
Guzmán Maldonado, A., Macedo Lopes, P. F., Rodríguez Fernández, C. A., Lasso Alcala, C. A., & Sumalia, U. R. (2017). Transboundary fisheries management in the Amazon: Assessing current policies for the management of the ornamental silver arawana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum). Marine Policy, 76, 192–199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2016.11.021
Cao, L., Chen, Y., Dong, S., Hanson, A., Huang, B., Leadbitter, D., ... Naylor, R. (2017) Opportunity for marine fisheries reform in China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(3) 435-442. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1616583114
Teh, L. S. L., Hotte, N., & Sumaila, U. R. (2017). Having it all: can fisheries buybacks achieve capacity, economic, ecological, and social objectives? Maritime Studies, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40152-016-0055-z

2016

Teh, L., Lam, V., Cheung, W., Miller, D., Teh, L., & Sumaila, U. (2016) Impact of High Seas Closure on Food Security in Low Income Fish Dependent Countries. PLOS ONE 11(12) e0168529. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168529
Jaung, W., Putzel, L., Bull, G. Q., Guariguata, M. R., & Sumaila, U. R. (2016). Estimating demand for certification of forest ecosystem services: A choice experiment with Forest Stewardship Council certificate holders. Ecosystem Services, 22, 193–201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.10.016
Teh, L. S. L., Cheung, W. W. L., & Sumaila, U. R. (2016). Scenarios for investigating the future of Canada’s oceans and marine fisheries under environmental and socioeconomic change. Regional Environmental Change, 17(3), 619–633. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-016-1081-5
Sala, E., Costello, C., De Bourbon Parme, J., Fiorese, M., Heal, G., Kelleher, K., Moffitt, R., Morgan, L., Plunkett, J., Rechberger, K. D., Rosenberg, A. A., & Sumaila, R. (2016). Fish banks: An economic model to scale marine conservation. Marine Policy, 73, 154–161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2016.07.032
Brooks, C. M., Crowder, L. B., Curran, L. M., Dunbar, R. B., Ainley, D. G., Dodds, K. J., Gjerde, K. M., & Sumaila, U. R. (2016). Science-based management in decline in the Southern Ocean. Science, 354(6309), 185–187. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aah4119
Brooks, C., Crowder, L., Curran, L., Dunbar, R., Ainley, D., Dodds, K., ... Sumaila, U. (2016) Science-based management in decline in the Southern Ocean. Science 354(6309) 185-187. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aah4119
Teh, L. S. L., Witter, A., Cheung, W. W. L., Sumaila, U. R., & Yin, X. (2016). What is at stake? Status and threats to South China Sea marine fisheries. Ambio, 46(1), 57–72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-016-0819-0
Lam, V. W. Y., Cheung, W. W. L., Reygondeau, G., & Sumaila, U. R. (2016). Projected change in global fisheries revenues under climate change. Scientific Reports, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep32607
Villasante, S., Pita, C., Pierce, G. J., Guimeráns, C. P., Rodrigues, J. G., Antelo, M., Rocha, J. M. D., Cutrín, J. G., Hastie, L., Sumaila, U. R., & Coll, M. (2016). To land or not to land: How do stakeholders perceive the zero discard policy in European small-scale fisheries? Marine Policy, 71, 166–174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2016.05.004
Cheung, W. W. L., Jones, M. C., Lam, V. W. Y., D Miller, D., Ota, Y., Teh, L., & Sumaila, U. R. (2016). Transform high seas management to build climate resilience in marine seafood supply. Fish and Fisheries, 18(2), 254–263. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12177
Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Sanjurjo, E., Munro, G. R., Hernández-Trejo, V., & Rashid Sumaila, U. (2016). Strategies and rationale for fishery subsidy reform. Marine Policy, 69, 229–236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2015.10.001
Bellmann, C., Tipping, A., & Sumaila, U. R. (2016). Global trade in fish and fishery products: An overview. Marine Policy, 69, 181–188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2015.12.019
Sumaila, U. R., Lam, V., Le Manach, F., Swartz, W., & Pauly, D. (2016). Global fisheries subsidies: An updated estimate. Marine Policy, 69, 189–193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2015.12.026
Sumaila, U. R., Bellmann, C., & Tipping, A. (2016). Fishing for the future: An overview of challenges and opportunities. Marine Policy, 69, 173–180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2016.01.003
Sumaila, U. R., Tipping, A., & Bellmann, C. (2016). Oceans, Fisheries and the Trade System. Marine Policy, 69, 171–172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2016.02.012
Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Cheung, W. W. L., Bodtker, K., Teh, L., Steiner, N., Bailey, M., Hoover, C., & Sumaila, U. R. (2017). Towards an integrated database on Canadian ocean resources: benefits, current states, and research gaps. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 74(1), 65–74. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2015-0573
Millage, K. D., Mayorga, J., Orofino, S., Atwood, T. B., Friedlander, A. M., Teh, L. S. L., Palomares, M. L. D., Sumaila, U. R., & Sala, E. (2025). The value of bottom trawling in Europe. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-6298588/v1
Cinner, J. E., Huchery, C., MacNeil, M. A., Graham, N. A. J., McClanahan, T. R., Maina, J., Maire, E., Kittinger, J. N., Hicks, C. C., Mora, C., Allison, E. H., D’Agata, S., Hoey, A., Feary, D. A., Crowder, L., Williams, I. D., Kulbicki, M., Vigliola, L., Wantiez, L., … Mouillot, D. (2016). Bright spots among the world’s coral reefs. Nature, 535(7612), 416–419. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature18607
Haas, A. R., Edwards, D. N., & Sumaila, U. R. (2016). Corporate concentration and processor control: Insights from the salmon and herring fisheries in British Columbia. Marine Policy, 68, 83–90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2016.02.019
Weatherdon, L. V., Magnan, A. K., Rogers, A. D., Sumaila, U. R., & Cheung, W. W. L. (2016). Observed and Projected Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Fisheries, Aquaculture, Coastal Tourism, and Human Health: An Update. Frontiers in Marine Science, 3. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2016.00048
Schuhbauer, A., & Sumaila, U. R. (2016). Economic viability and small-scale fisheries — A review. Ecological Economics, 124, 69–75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.01.018
de Melo Alves Damasio, L., Lopes, P. F. M., Pennino, M. G., Carvalho, A. R., & Sumaila, U. R. (2016). Size matters: fishing less and yielding more in smaller-scale fisheries. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 73(6), 1494–1502. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsw016
Belhabib, D., Campredon, P., Lazar, N., Sumaila, U. R., Baye, B. C., Kane, E. A., & Pauly, D. (2016). Best for pleasure, not for business: evaluating recreational marine fisheries in West Africa using unconventional sources of data. Palgrave Communications, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2015.50
Froese, R., Winker, H., Gascuel, D., Sumaila, U. R., & Pauly, D. (2016). Minimizing the impact of fishing. Fish and Fisheries, 17(3), 785–802. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12146
SUMAILA, U. R. (1995). Irreversible Capital Investment in a Two-Stage Bimatrix Fishery Game Model. Marine Resource Economics, 10(3), 263–283. https://doi.org/10.1086/mre.10.3.42629591
BERMAN, M., & Sumaila, U. R. (2006). Discounting, Amenity Values, and Marine Ecosystem Restoration. Marine Resource Economics, 21(2), 211–219. https://doi.org/10.1086/mre.21.2.42629505
SUMAILA, U. R., CHARLES, A., & SYLVIA, G. (2006). Topical Problems in Fishery Economics: An Introduction. Marine Resource Economics, 21(4), 337–340. https://doi.org/10.1086/mre.21.4.42629519
Bailey, M., Favaro, B., Otto, S. P., Charles, A., Devillers, R., Metaxas, A., Tyedmers, P., Ban, N. C., Mason, T., Hoover, C., Duck, T. J., Fanning, L., Milley, C., Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Pauly, D., Cheung, W. W. L., Cullis-Suzuki, S., Teh, L., & Sumaila, U. R. (2016). Canada at a crossroad: The imperative for realigning ocean policy with ocean science. Marine Policy, 63, 53–60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2015.10.002
Sumaila, U. (2016) Socio-economic benefits of Large Marine Ecosystem valuation: The case of the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem. Environmental Development 17 244-248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2015.10.002
Österblom, H., Bodin, Ö., Press, A., & Rashid Sumaila, U. (2015) The High Seas and IUU Fishing. Routledge Handbook of Ocean Resources and Management 232-240. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203115398-16
Fulai, S., Flomenhoft, G., Downs, T. J., Grande-Ortiz, M., Graef, D., Scholtens, B., Mol, A. P. J., Sonnenfeld, D. A., Spaargaren, G., Goel, R. K., Hsieh, E. W. T., Scrieciu, S., Steurer, R., Polzin, C., Kostka, G., Ancev, T., Pirgmaier, E., Boons, F., Robèrt, K.-H., Sumaila, U.R., … Hermann, S. (2011). “Is the concept of a green economy a useful way of framing policy discussions and policymaking to promote sustainable development?” Natural Resources Forum, 35(1), 63–72. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-8947.2011.01347.x

2015

Gattuso, J.-P., Magnan, A., Billé, R., Cheung, W. W. L., Howes, E. L., Joos, F., Allemand, D., Bopp, L., Cooley, S. R., Eakin, C. M., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Kelly, R. P., Pörtner, H.-O., Rogers, A. D., Baxter, J. M., Laffoley, D., Osborn, D., Rankovic, A., Rochette, J., Sumaila, U.R., … Turley, C. (2015). Contrasting futures for ocean and society from different anthropogenic CO 2 emissions scenarios. Science, 349(6243). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac4722
Teh, L., & Sumaila, U. (2015). Trends in global shared fisheries. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 530, 243–254. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps11049
Cheung, W., & Sumaila, U. (2015). Economic incentives and overfishing: a bioeconomic vulnerability index. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 530, 223–232. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps11135
Sumaila, U., Hotte, N., Galli, A., Lam, V., Cisneros-Montemayor, A., & Wackernagel, M. (2015). Eco2: a simple index of economic-ecological deficits. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 530, 271–279. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps11278
Bailey, M., & Sumaila, U. (2015). Destructive fishing and fisheries enforcement in eastern Indonesia. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 530, 195–211. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps11352
Díaz, S., Demissew, S., Carabias, J., Joly, C., Lonsdale, M., Ash, N., ... Zlatanova, D. (2015) The IPBES Conceptual Framework — connecting nature and people. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 14 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2014.11.002
Munro, G. R., & Sumaila, U. R. (2015). On the Contributions of Colin Clark to Fisheries Economics. Environmental and Resource Economics, 61(1), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-015-9910-4
Belhabib, D., Sumaila, U. R., Lam, V. W. Y., Zeller, D., Le Billon, P., Abou Kane, E., & Pauly, D. (2015). Euros vs. Yuan: Comparing European and Chinese Fishing Access in West Africa. PLOS ONE, 10(3), e0118351. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118351
Sumaila, U. R., Lam, V. W. Y., Miller, D. D., Teh, L., Watson, R. A., Zeller, D., Cheung, W. W. L., Côté, I. M., Rogers, A. D., Roberts, C., Sala, E., & Pauly, D. (2015). Winners and losers in a world where the high seas is closed to fishing. Scientific Reports, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep08481

2014

Lam, V. W. Y., Cheung, W. W. L., & Sumaila, U. R. (2014). Marine capture fisheries in the Arctic: winners or losers under climate change and ocean acidification? Fish and Fisheries, 17(2), 335–357. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12106
Marques, A., Pereira, H. M., Krug, C., Leadley, P. W., Visconti, P., Januchowski-Hartley, S. R., Krug, R. M., Alkemade, R., Bellard, C., Cheung, W. W. L., Christensen, V., Cooper, H. D., Hirsch, T., Hoft, R., van Kolck, J., Newbold, T., Noonan-Mooney, K., Regan, E. C., Rondinini, C., … Walpole, M. (2014). A framework to identify enabling and urgent actions for the 2020 Aichi Targets. Basic and Applied Ecology, 15(8), 633–638. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2014.09.004
Tittensor, D., Walpole, M., Hill, S., Boyce, D., Britten, G., Burgess, N., ... Ye, Y. (2014) A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets. Science 346(6206) 241-244. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1257484
Nunoo, F. K. E., Asiedu, B., Amador, K., Belhabib, D., Lam, V., Sumaila, R., & Pauly, D. (2014). Marine Fisheries Catches in Ghana: Historic Reconstruction for 1950 to 2010 and Current Economic Impacts. Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture, 22(4), 274–283. https://doi.org/10.1080/23308249.2014.962687
Sumaila, U. R., & Bawumia, M. (2014). Fisheries, ecosystem justice and piracy: A case study of Somalia. Fisheries Research, 157, 154–163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2014.04.009
MILLER, D. D., TOOLEY, K., & SUMAILA, U. R. (2014). Large-scale oil spills and flag-use within the global tanker fleet. Environmental Conservation, 42(2), 119–126. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0376892914000289
Leadley, P., Proença, V., Fernández-Manjarrés, J., Pereira, H. M., Alkemade, R., Biggs, R., Bruley, E., Cheung, W., Cooper, D., Figueiredo, J., Gilman, E., Guénette, S., Hurtt, G., Mbow, C., Oberdorff, T., Revenga, C., Scharlemann, J. P. W., Scholes, R., Smith, M. S., … Walpole, M. (2014). Interacting Regional-Scale Regime Shifts for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. BioScience, 64(8), 665–679. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biu093
Miller, D. D., Hotte, N., & Sumaila, U. R. (2014). Mandating responsible flagging practices as a strategy for reducing the risk of coastal oil spills. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 81(1), 24–26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.01.013
Miller, D. D., & Sumaila, U. R. (2014). Flag use behavior and IUU activity within the international fishing fleet: Refining definitions and identifying areas of concern. Marine Policy, 44, 204–211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2013.08.027
Teh, L. S. L., Teh, L. C. L., & Rashid Sumaila, U. (2014). Time preference of small-scale fishers in open access and traditionally managed reef fisheries. Marine Policy, 44, 222–231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2013.08.028
Pelletier, N., André, J., Charef, A., Damalas, D., Green, B., Parker, R., Sumaila, R., Thomas, G., Tobin, R., & Watson, R. (2014). Energy prices and seafood security. Global Environmental Change, 24, 30–41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.11.014
Sumaila, U. R., Dyck, A., & Baske, A. (2014). Subsidies to tuna fisheries in the Western Central Pacific Ocean. Marine Policy, 43, 288–294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2013.06.012
Rotjan, R., Jamieson, R., Carr, B., Kaufman, L., Mangubhai, S., Obura, D., ... Stone, G. (2014) Establishment, Management, and Maintenance of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area. Advances in Marine Biology 289-324. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-800214-8.00008-6

2013

Le Manach, F., Chaboud, C., Copeland, D., Cury, P., Gascuel, D., Kleisner, K. M., Standing, A., Sumaila, U. R., Zeller, D., & Pauly, D. (2013). European Union’s Public Fishing Access Agreements in Developing Countries. PLoS ONE, 8(11), e79899. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0079899
Kleisner, K. M., Longo, C., Coll, M., Halpern, B. S., Hardy, D., Katona, S. K., Le Manach, F., Pauly, D., Rosenberg, A. A., Samhouri, J. F., Scarborough, C., Rashid Sumaila, U., Watson, R., & Zeller, D. (2013). Exploring Patterns of Seafood Provision Revealed in the Global Ocean Health Index. AMBIO, 42(8), 910–922. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-013-0447-x
Cisneros‐Montemayor, A., Kirkwood, F., Harper, S., Zeller, D., & Sumaila, U. (2013) Economic use value of the Belize marine ecosystem: Potential risks and benefits from offshore oil exploration. Natural Resources Forum 37(4) 221-230. https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-8947.12023
Ekeland, I., Karp, L. S., & Sumaila, R. (2013). Equilibrium Resource Management with Altruistic Overlapping Generations. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2298172
Gagern, A., van den Bergh, J., & Sumaila, U. R. (2013). Trade-Based Estimation of Bluefin Tuna Catches in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, 2005–2011. PLoS ONE, 8(7), e69959. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069959
Bailey, M., Ishimura, G., Paisley, R., & Rashid Sumaila, U. (2013). Moving beyond catch in allocation approaches for internationally shared fish stocks. Marine Policy, 40, 124–136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2012.12.014
Teh, L. S. L., Teh, L. C. L., & Sumaila, U. R. (2013). A Global Estimate of the Number of Coral Reef Fishers. PLoS ONE, 8(6), e65397. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065397
Srinivasan, U. T., Cheung, W. W. L., Watson, R. A., & Sumaila, U. R. (2013). Response to removing biases in forecasts of fishery status. Journal of Bioeconomics, 16(2), 221–222. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-013-9160-x
Teh, L. S. L., Teh, L. C. L., Sumaila, U. R., & Cheung, W. (2013). Time Discounting and the Overexploitation of Coral Reefs. Environmental and Resource Economics, 61(1), 91–114. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-013-9674-7
Hotte, N., & Sumaila, U. R. (2013). How much could a tanker spill cost British Columbians? Environment, Development and Sustainability, 16(1), 159–180. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-013-9468-7
Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Barnes-Mauthe, M., Al-Abdulrazzak, D., Navarro-Holm, E., & Sumaila, U. R. (2013). Global economic value of shark ecotourism: implications for conservation. Oryx, 47(3), 381–388. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0030605312001718
Asiedu, B., Nunoo, F., Ofori-Danson, P., Sarpong, D., & Sumaila, U. (2013) Poverty Measurements in Small-scale Fisheries of Ghana: A Step towards Poverty Eradication. Current Research Journal of Social Sciences 5(3) 75-90. https://doi.org/10.19026/crjss.5.5542
Miller, K. A., Munro, G. R., Sumaila, U. R., & Cheung, W. W. L. (2013). Governing Marine Fisheries in a Changing Climate: A Game–Theoretic Perspective. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue Canadienne d’agroeconomie, 61(2), 309–334. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/cjag.12011
Harper, S., Zeller, D., Hauzer, M., Pauly, D., & Sumaila, U. R. (2013). Women and fisheries: Contribution to food security and local economies. Marine Policy, 39, 56–63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2012.10.018
Ishimura, G., Herrick, S., & Sumaila, U. R. (2013). Stability of cooperative management of the Pacific sardine fishery under climate variability. Marine Policy, 39, 333–340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2012.12.008
Ishimura, G., Herrick, S., & Sumaila, U. (2013) Stability of cooperative management of the Pacific sardine fishery under climate variability. Marine Policy 39 333-340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2012.12.008
Tsikliras, A., Sumaila, U., & Stergiou, K. (2013). Parallels in economic and ecosystem crises. Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 13(1), 23–25. https://doi.org/10.3354/esep00133
Sumaila, U. R., Dyck, A., & Cheung, W. W. L. (2013). Fisheries subsidies and potential catch loss in SIDS Exclusive Economic Zones: food security implications. Environment and Development Economics, 18(4), 427–439. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1355770x13000156
Sala, E., Costello, C., Dougherty, D., Heal, G., Kelleher, K., Murray, J., ... Sumaila, R. (2013) A General Business Model for Marine Reserves. PLoS ONE 8(4) e58799. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058799
VARKEY, D. A., Pitcher, T. J., McALLISTER, M. K., & SUMAILA, R. S. (2013). Bayesian Decision–Network Modeling of Multiple Stakeholders for Reef Ecosystem Restoration in the Coral Triangle. Conservation Biology, 27(3), 459–469. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12036
Schuhbauer, Favoretto, Wang, Aburto-Oropeza, Sala, Millage, Cabral, Sumaila, Hsu, Lucrezi, Tighsazzadeh, Plascencia de La Cruz, & Cisneros-Montemayor. (2025). Global economic impact of scuba dive tourism. Cell Reports Sustainability, 2(7), 100435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsus.2025.100435
Hoover, C., Bailey, M., Higdon, J., Ferguson, S. H., & Sumaila, R. (2013). Estimating the Economic Value of Narwhal and Beluga Hunts in Hudson Bay, Nunavut. ARCTIC, 66(1). https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic4261
Le Manach, F., Andriamahefazafy, M., Harper, S., Harris, A., Hosch, G., Lange, G.-M., Zeller, D., & Sumaila, U. R. (2013). Who gets what? Developing a more equitable framework for EU fishing agreements. Marine Policy, 38, 257–266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2012.06.001
Bailey, M. (2013) Can Cooperative Management of Tuna Fisheries in the Western Pacific Solve the Growth Overfishing Problem?. Strategic Behavior and the Environment 3(1–2) 31-66. https://doi.org/10.1561/102.00000023

2012

Sumaila, U. R. (2012). How to make progress in disciplining overfishing subsidies. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 70(2), 251–258. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fss173
Hawkshaw, R., Hawkshaw, S., & Sumaila, U. (2012). The Tragedy of the “Tragedy of the Commons”: Why Coining Too Good a Phrase Can Be Dangerous. Sustainability, 4(11), 3141–3150. https://doi.org/10.3390/su4113141
Swartz, Sumaila, & Watson. (2013). Global Ex-vessel Fish Price Database Revisited: A New Approach for Estimating ‘Missing’ Prices. Environmental and Resource Economics, 56(4), 467-480. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-012-9611-1
Ishimura, G., Herrick, S., & Sumaila, U. R. (2012). Fishing games under climate variability: transboundary management of Pacific sardine in the California Current System. Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 15(2), 189–209. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10018-012-0048-0
Pikitch, E. K., Rountos, K. J., Essington, T. E., Santora, C., Pauly, D., Watson, R., Sumaila, U. R., Boersma, P. D., Boyd, I. L., Conover, D. O., Cury, P., Heppell, S. S., Houde, E. D., Mangel, M., Plagányi, É., Sainsbury, K., Steneck, R. S., Geers, T. M., Gownaris, N., & Munch, S. B. (2012). The global contribution of forage fish to marine fisheries and ecosystems. Fish and Fisheries, 15(1), 43–64. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12004
Halpern, B., Longo, C., Hardy, D., McLeod, K., Samhouri, J., Katona, S., ... Zeller, D. (2012) An index to assess the health and benefits of the global ocean. Nature 488(7413) 615-620. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11397
Asamoah, E. K., Ewusie Nunoo, F. K., Osei-Asare, Y. B., Addo, S., & Sumaila, U. R. (2012). A PRODUCTION FUNCTION ANALYSIS OF POND AQUACULTURE IN SOUTHERN GHANA. Aquaculture Economics & Management, 16(3), 183–201. https://doi.org/10.1080/13657305.2012.704616
Sumaila, U. R., Cheung, W., Dyck, A., Gueye, K., Huang, L., Lam, V., Pauly, D., Srinivasan, T., Swartz, W., Watson, R., & Zeller, D. (2012). Benefits of Rebuilding Global Marine Fisheries Outweigh Costs. PLoS ONE, 7(7), e40542. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0040542
Bailey, M., Flores, J., Pokajam, S., & Sumaila, U. R. (2012). Towards better management of Coral Triangle tuna. Ocean & Coastal Management, 63, 30–42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2012.03.010
Watson, R. A., Cheung, W. W. L., Anticamara, J. A., Sumaila, R. U., Zeller, D., & Pauly, D. (2012). Global marine yield halved as fishing intensity redoubles. Fish and Fisheries, 14(4), 493–503. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-2979.2012.00483.x
Lam, V., Cheung, W., Swartz, W., & Sumaila, U. (2012). Climate change impacts on fisheries in West Africa: implications for economic, food and nutritional security. African Journal of Marine Science, 34(1), 103–117. https://doi.org/10.2989/1814232x.2012.673294
Sumaila, U. R. (2012). Seas, Oceans and Fisheries: A Challenge for Good Governance. The Round Table, 101(2), 157–166. https://doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2012.661532
Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Christensen, V., Arreguín-Sánchez, F., & Sumaila, U. R. (2012). Ecosystem models for management advice: An analysis of recreational and commercial fisheries policies in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Ecological Modelling, 228, 8–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.12.021
Sumaila, U. R., & Huang, L. (2012). Managing Bluefin Tuna in the Mediterranean Sea. Marine Policy, 36(2), 502–511. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2011.08.010
Srinivasan, U. T., Watson, R., & Rashid Sumaila, U. (2012). Global fisheries losses at the exclusive economic zone level, 1950 to present. Marine Policy, 36(2), 544–549. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2011.10.001
Norse, E., Brooke, S., Cheung, W., Clark, M., Ekeland, I., Froese, R., ... Watson, R. (2012) Sustainability of deep-sea fisheries. Marine Policy 36(2) 307-320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2011.06.008
Sumaila, U. R. (2012). Call to split fisheries at home and abroad. Nature, 481(7381), 265–265. https://doi.org/10.1038/481265c
Harper, S., Bevacqua, D., Chudnow, R., Giorgi, S., Guillonneau, V., Le Manach, F., Sutor, T., & Sumaila, U. R. (2012). Fuelling the fisheries subsidy debate: Agreements, loopholes and implications. Fisheries Research, 113(1), 143–146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2011.10.007

2011

Teh, L. C. L., & Sumaila, U. R. (2011). Contribution of marine fisheries to worldwide employment. Fish and Fisheries, 14(1), 77–88. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-2979.2011.00450.x
Sumaila, U. R. (2011). Book Review: Fisheries Subsidies, Sustainable Development and the WTO. International Journal of Maritime History, 23(2), 396–398. https://doi.org/10.1177/084387141102300238
Sumaila, U. R., Cheung, W. W. L., Lam, V. W. Y., Pauly, D., & Herrick, S. (2011). Climate change impacts on the biophysics and economics of world fisheries. Nature Climate Change, 1(9), 449–456. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1301
Angelsen, A., & Sumaila, U. R. (1996). Hard Methods for Soft Policies: Environmental and Social Cost-Benefit Analysis. Forum for Development Studies, 23(1), 87–114. https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.1996.9666020
Sumaila, U. R. (2000). Fish as Vehicle for Economic Development in Namibia. Forum for Development Studies, 27(2), 295–315. https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2000.9666143
Lam, V. W. Y., Sumaila, U. R., Dyck, A., Pauly, D., & Watson, R. (2011). Construction and first applications of a global cost of fishing database. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 68(9), 1996–2004. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsr121
Liu, Y., Sumaila, U. R., & Volpe, J. P. (2011). Potential ecological and economic impacts of sea lice from farmed salmon on wild salmon fisheries. Ecological Economics, 70(10), 1746–1755. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.04.017
Teh, L. S. L., Teh, L. C. L., & Sumaila, U. R. (2011). Quantifying the overlooked socio-economic contribution of small-scale fisheries in Sabah, Malaysia. Fisheries Research, 110(3), 450–458. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2011.06.001
Österblom, H., & Sumaila, U. R. (2011). Toothfish crises, actor diversity and the emergence of compliance mechanisms in the Southern Ocean. Global Environmental Change, 21(3), 972–982. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.04.013
Collette, B. B., Carpenter, K. E., Polidoro, B. A., Juan-Jordá, M. J., Boustany, A., Die, D. J., Elfes, C., Fox, W., Graves, J., Harrison, L. R., McManus, R., Minte-Vera, C. V., Nelson, R., Restrepo, V., Schratwieser, J., Sun, C.-L., Amorim, A., Brick Peres, M., Canales, C., … Yáñez, E. (2011). High Value and Long Life—Double Jeopardy for Tunas and Billfishes. Science, 333(6040), 291–292. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1208730
McCrea-Strub, A., Kleisner, K., Sumaila, U., Swartz, W., Watson, R., Zeller, D., & Pauly, D. (2011) Potential Impact of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Commercial Fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico. Fisheries 36(7) 332-336. https://doi.org/10.1080/03632415.2011.589334
Teh, L. S. L., Teh, L. C. L., & Sumaila, U. R. (2011). Low Discounting Behavior among Small-Scale Fishers in Fiji and Sabah, Malaysia. Sustainability, 3(6), 897–913. https://doi.org/10.3390/su3060897
Heymans, J. J., Mackinson, S., Sumaila, U. R., Dyck, A., & Little, A. (2011). The Impact of Subsidies on the Ecological Sustainability and Future Profits from North Sea Fisheries. PLoS ONE, 6(5), e20239. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020239
Sumaila, Pierucci, Oyinlola, Cannas, Froese, Glaser, Jacquet, Kaiser, Issifu, Micheli, Naylor, & Pauly. (2022). Aquaculture over-optimism?. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.984354
Perry, Ommer, Barange, Jentoft, Neis, & Sumaila. (2011). Marine social-ecological responses to environmental change and the impacts of globalization. Fish and Fisheries, 12(4), 427-450. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abm1680
McCrea-Strub, A., Zeller, D., Rashid Sumaila, U., Nelson, J., Balmford, A., & Pauly, D. (2011). Understanding the cost of establishing marine protected areas. Marine Policy, 35(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2010.07.001
Sumaila, de Fontaubert, & Palomares. (2023). Editorial: How overfishing handicaps resilience of marine resources under climate change. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1250449

2010

Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Sumaila, U. R., Kaschner, K., & Pauly, D. (2010). The global potential for whale watching. Marine Policy, 34(6), 1273–1278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2010.05.005
Swartz, W., Rashid Sumaila, U., Watson, R., & Pauly, D. (2010). Sourcing seafood for the three major markets: The EU, Japan and the USA. Marine Policy, 34(6), 1366–1373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2010.06.011
Tissot, B., Best, B., Borneman, E., Bruckner, A., Cooper, C., D’Agnes, H., ... Stevenson, T. (2010) How U.S. ocean policy and market power can reform the coral reef wildlife trade. Marine Policy 34(6) 1385-1388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2010.06.002
Hunsicker, M. E., Essington, T. E., Watson, R., & Sumaila, U. R. (2010). The contribution of cephalopods to global marine fisheries: can we have our squid and eat them too? Fish and Fisheries, 11(4), 421–438. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-2979.2010.00369.x
Pereira, Leadley, Proença, Alkemade, Scharlemann, Fernandez-Manjarrés, Araújo, Balvanera, Biggs, Cheung, Chini, Cooper, Gilman, Guénette, Hurtt, Huntington, Mace, Oberdorff, Revenga, Rodrigues, Scholes, Sumaila, & Walpole. (2010). Scenarios for Global Biodiversity in the 21st Century. Science, 330(6010), 1496-1501. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1196624
Gasalla, M. A., Rodrigues, A. R., Duarte, L. F. A., & Rashid Sumaila, U. (2010). A comparative multi-fleet analysis of socio-economic indicators for fishery management in SE Brazil. Progress in Oceanography, 87(1–4), 304–319. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2010.09.011
Österblom, H., Sumaila, U. R., Bodin, Ö., Hentati Sundberg, J., & Press, A. J. (2010). Adapting to Regional Enforcement: Fishing Down the Governance Index. PLoS ONE, 5(9), e12832. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012832
Clark, C. W., Munro, G. R., & Sumaila, U. R. (2010). Limits to the Privatization of Fishery Resources: Reply. Land Economics, 86(3), 614–618. https://doi.org/10.3368/le.86.3.614
Dyck, A. J., & Sumaila, U. R. (2010). Economic impact of ocean fish populations in the global fishery. Journal of Bioeconomics, 12(3), 227–243. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-010-9088-3
Sumaila, U. R., & Hannesson, R. (2010). Maximum economic yield in crisis? Fish and Fisheries, 11(4), 461–465. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-2979.2010.00381.x
Sumaila, U. R., Arnason, R., & Lange, G.-M. (2010). Toward a global fisheries economics: an introduction to the special issue. Journal of Bioeconomics, 12(3), 179–182. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-010-9089-2
Sumaila, U. R., Khan, A. S., Dyck, A. J., Watson, R., Munro, G., Tydemers, P., & Pauly, D. (2010). A bottom-up re-estimation of global fisheries subsidies. Journal of Bioeconomics, 12(3), 201–225. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-010-9091-8
Teh, L. S. L., Teh, L. C. L., & Sumaila, U. R. (2013). A Global Estimate of the Number of Coral Reef Fishers. PLoS ONE, 8(6), e65397. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065397
Cisneros-Montemayor, A., & Sumaila, U. (2010) A global estimate of benefits from ecosystem-based marine recreation: potential impacts and implications for management. Journal of Bioeconomics 12(3) 245-268. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-010-9092-7
Sumalia, U. (2005). Differences in economic perspectives and implementation of ecosystem-based management of marine resources. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 300, 279–282. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps300279
Sumaila, U. R., & Domínguez–Torreiro, M. (2010). Discount factors and the performance of alternative fisheries governance systems. Fish and Fisheries, 11(3), 278–287. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-2979.2010.00377.x
Liu, Y., & Sumaila, U. R. (2010). Estimating Pollution Abatement Costs of Salmon Aquaculture: A Joint Production Approach. Land Economics, 86(3), 569–584. https://doi.org/10.3368/le.86.3.569
Sumaila, U. R., Khan, A., Teh, L., Watson, R., Tyedmers, P., & Pauly, D. (2010). Subsidies to high seas bottom trawl fleets and the sustainability of deep-sea demersal fish stocks. Marine Policy, 34(3), 495–497. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2009.10.004
Wielgus, J., Zeller, D., Caicedo-Herrera, D., & Sumaila, R. (2010). Estimation of fisheries removals and primary economic impact of the small-scale and industrial marine fisheries in Colombia. Marine Policy, 34(3), 506–513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2009.10.006
Villasante, S., & Sumaila, U. R. (2010). Estimating the effects of technological efficiency on the European fishing fleet. Marine Policy, 34(3), 720–722. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2009.11.008
Clark, C., Munro, G., & Sumaila, U. (2010) Limits to the Privatization of Fishery Resources. Land Economics 86(2) 209-218. https://doi.org/10.3368/le.86.2.209
Varkey, D. A., Ainsworth, C. H., Pitcher, T. J., Goram, Y., & Sumaila, R. (2010). Illegal, unreported and unregulated fisheries catch in Raja Ampat Regency, Eastern Indonesia. Marine Policy, 34(2), 228–236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2009.06.009
Bailey, M., Rashid Sumaila, U., & Lindroos, M. (2010). Application of game theory to fisheries over three decades. Fisheries Research, 102(1–2), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2009.11.003

2009

Heymans, J. J., Sumaila, U. R., & Christensen, V. (2009). Policy options for the northern Benguela ecosystem using a multispecies, multifleet ecosystem model. Progress in Oceanography, 83(1–4), 417–425. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2009.07.013
Jacquet, J., Hocevar, J., Lai, S., Majluf, P., Pelletier, N., Pitcher, T., Sala, E., Sumaila, R., & Pauly, D. (2009). Conserving wild fish in a sea of market-based efforts. Oryx, 44(1), 45–56. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0030605309990470
Teh, L. C. L., Teh, L. S. L., Starkhouse, B., & Rashid Sumaila, U. (2009). An overview of socio-economic and ecological perspectives of Fiji’s inshore reef fisheries. Marine Policy, 33(5), 807–817. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2009.03.001
Christensen, V., Walters, C., Ahrens, R., Alder, J., Buszowski, J., Christensen, L., ... Pauly, D. (2009) Database-driven models of the world's Large Marine Ecosystems. Ecological Modelling 220(17) 1984-1996. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.04.041
Mora, C., Myers, R., Coll, M., Libralato, S., Pitcher, T., Sumaila, R., ... Worm, B. (2009) Management Effectiveness of the World's Marine Fisheries. PLoS Biology 7(6) e1000131. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000131
Dale Marsden, A., Martell, S. J. D., & Rashid Sumaila, U. (2009). Retrospective bioeconomic analysis of Fraser River sockeye salmon fishery management. Fisheries Research, 97(1–2), 32–41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2008.12.018
Jenkins, D. J. A., Sievenpiper, J. L., Pauly, D., Sumaila, U. R., Kendall, C. W. C., & Mowat, F. M. (2009). Are dietary recommendations for the use of fish oils sustainable? Canadian Medical Association Journal, 180(6), 633–637. https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.081274
Nunoo, F. K. E., Boateng, J. O., Ahulu, A. M., Agyekum, K. A., & Sumaila, U. R. (2009). When trash fish is treasure: The case of Ghana in West Africa. Fisheries Research, 96(2–3), 167–172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2008.10.010
SUMAILA, U. R., DINAR, A., & ALBIAC, J. (2009). Game theoretic applications to environmental and natural resource problems. Environment and Development Economics, 14(1), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1355770x08004609
Sharp, R., & Sumaila, U. (2009) Quantification of U.S. Marine Fisheries Subsidies. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 29(1) 18-32. https://doi.org/10.1577/m07-170.1
Martell, S. J., Walters, C., & Sumaila, U. R. (2009). Industry–funded fishing license reduction good for both profits and conservation. Fish and Fisheries, 10(1), 1–12. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-2979.2008.00289.x
SUMAILA, U. R., & CHARLES, A. T. (2002). ECONOMIC MODELS OF MARINE PROTECTED AREAS: AN INTRODUCTION. Natural Resource Modeling, 15(3), 261–272. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-7445.2002.tb00089.x
BEATTIE, A., SUMAILA, U. R., Christensen, V., & PAULY, D. (2002). A MODEL FOR THE BIOECONOMIC EVALUATION OF MARINE PROTECTED AREA SIZE AND PLACEMENT IN THE NORTH SEA. Natural Resource Modeling, 15(4), 413–437. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-7445.2002.tb00096.x
SUMAILA, U. R. (2002). MARINE PROTECTED AREA PERFORMANCE IN A MODEL OF THE FISHERY. Natural Resource Modeling, 15(4), 439–451. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-7445.2002.tb00097.x

2008

Cheung, W. W. L., & Sumaila, U. R. (2008). Trade-offs between conservation and socio-economic objectives in managing a tropical marine ecosystem. Ecological Economics, 66(1), 193–210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.09.001
Bailey, M., Rotinsulu, C., & Sumaila, U. R. (2008). The migrant anchovy fishery in Kabui Bay, Raja Ampat, Indonesia: Catch, profitability, and income distribution. Marine Policy, 32(3), 483–488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2007.09.010
Liu, Y., & Sumaila, U. R. (2008). Can farmed salmon production keep growing? Marine Policy, 32(3), 497–501. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2007.09.012
Sumaila, U. R., Teh, L., Watson, R., Tyedmers, P., & Pauly, D. (2008). Fuel price increase, subsidies, overcapacity, and resource sustainability. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 65(6), 832–840. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsn070
Teh, L., Cheung, W. W. L., Cornish, A., Chu, C., & Rashid Sumaila, U. (2008). A survey of alternative livelihood options for Hong Kong’s fishers. International Journal of Social Economics, 35(5), 380–395. https://doi.org/10.1108/03068290810861620

2007

Sumaila, U. R., & Pauly, D. (2007). All fishing nations must unite to cut subsidies. Nature, 450(7172), 945–945. https://doi.org/10.1038/450945a
Liu, Y., & Sumaila, U. R. (2007). ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF NETCAGE VERSUS SEA-BAG PRODUCTION SYSTEMS FOR SALMON AQUACULTURE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. Aquaculture Economics & Management, 11(4), 371–395. https://doi.org/10.1080/13657300701727235
Sumaila, U., Zeller, D., Watson, R., Alder, J., & Pauly, D. (2007). Potential costs and benefits of marine reserves in the high seas. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 345, 305–310. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07065
U. Rashid Sumaila, Ahmed Khan, Reg Watson, Gordon R. Munro, Dirk Zeller, Nancy Baron, & Daniel Pauly (2007) The world trade organization and global fisheries sustainability. Fisheries Research 88(1-3) 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2007.08.017
Teh, L., & Sumaila, U. R. (2007). Malthusian overfishing in Pulau Banggi? Marine Policy, 31(4), 451–457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2007.01.001
Abdallah, P. R., & Sumaila, U. R. (2007). An historical account of Brazilian public policy on fisheries subsidies. Marine Policy, 31(4), 444–450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2007.01.002
Teh, L., & Sumaila, U. (2007) Malthusian overfishing in Pulau Banggi?. Marine Policy 31(4) 451-457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2007.01.001
Sumaila, U. R., Marsden, A. D., Watson, R., & Pauly, D. (2007). A Global Ex-vessel Fish Price Database: Construction and Applications. Journal of Bioeconomics, 9(1), 39–51. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-007-9015-4
Sumaila, U. R., Volpe, J., & Liu, Y. (2007). Potential economic benefits from sablefish farming in British Columbia. Marine Policy, 31(2), 81–84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2006.04.004
Perry, R. I., & Sumaila, U. R. (2007). Marine ecosystem variability and human community responses: The example of Ghana, West Africa. Marine Policy, 31(2), 125–134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2006.05.011
Perry, R., & Sumaila, U. (2007) Marine ecosystem variability and human community responses: The example of Ghana, West Africa. Marine Policy 31(2) 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2006.05.011
Teh, L. S. L., Zeller, D., Cabanban, A., Teh, L. C. L., & Sumaila, U. R. (2007). Seasonality and historic trends in the reef fisheries of Pulau Banggi, Sabah, Malaysia. Coral Reefs, 26(2), 251–263. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-006-0182-x
Sumaila, U. R., Munro, G. R., Sutinen, J. G., Ussif Rashid, S., Munro, G. R., & Sutinen, J. G. (2007). Recent Developments in Fisheries Economics: An Introduction. Land Economics, 83(1), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.3368/le.83.1.1
Millerd, F., Ussif Rashid, S., Munro, G. R., & Sutinen, J. G. (2007). Early Attempts at Establishing Exclusive Rights in the British Columbia Salmon Fishery. Land Economics, 83(1), 23–40. https://doi.org/10.3368/le.83.1.23
Asche, F., Gordon, D. V., Jensen, C. L., Ussif Rashid, S., Munro, G. R., & Sutinen, J. G. (2007). Individual Vessel Quotas and Increased Fishing Pressure on Unregulated Species. Land Economics, 83(1), 41–49. https://doi.org/10.3368/le.83.1.41
Clark, C. W., Munro, G. R., Sumaila, U. R., Ussif Rashid, S., Munro, G. R., & Sutinen, J. G. (2007). Buyback Subsidies, the Time Consistency Problem, and the ITQ Alternative. Land Economics, 83(1), 50–58. https://doi.org/10.3368/le.83.1.50
Smith, M. D., Ussif Rashid, S., Munro, G. R., & Sutinen, J. G. (2007). Generating Value in Habitat-Dependent Fisheries: The Importance of Fishery Management Institutions. Land Economics, 83(1), 59–73. https://doi.org/10.3368/le.83.1.59
Ruijs, A., Janmaat, J. A., Ussif Rashid, S., Munro, G. R., & Sutinen, J. G. (2007). Chasing the Spillovers: Locating Protected Areas in a Trans-Boundary Fishery. Land Economics, 83(1), 6–22. https://doi.org/10.3368/le.83.1.6
Sumaila, U. R., & Walters, C. (2007). Making future generations count: Comment on “Remembering the future.” Ecological Economics, 60(3), 487–488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.02.007

2006

Sumaila, U. R., Alder, J., & Keith, H. (2006). Global scope and economics of illegal fishing. Marine Policy, 30(6), 696–703. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2005.11.001
Sumaila, U. R., & Armstrong, C. W. (2006). Distributional and Efficiency Effects of Marine Protected Areas: A Study of the Northeast Atlantic Cod Fishery. Land Economics, 82(3), 321–332. https://doi.org/10.3368/le.82.3.321

2005

Teh, L., Cabanban, A. S., & Sumaila, U. R. (2005). The reef fisheries of Pulau Banggi, Sabah: A preliminary profile and assessment of ecological and socio-economic sustainability. Fisheries Research, 76(3), 359–367. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2005.07.009
Clark, C. W., Munro, G. R., & Sumaila, U. R. (2005). Subsidies, buybacks, and sustainable fisheries. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 50(1), 47–58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2004.11.002
Marsden, A. D., & Sumaila, U. R. (2005). Tracking flows of fisheries products: the case of Pacific halibut in the Canadian economy. Fisheries Research, 73(1–2), 259–264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2004.12.007
Ainsworth, C., & Sumaila, U. (2005) Intergenerational valuation of fisheries resources can justify long-term conservation: a case study in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62(5) 1104-1110. https://doi.org/10.1139/f05-010
Ussif, A.-A. M., & Sumaila, U. R. (2005). Modeling the dynamics of regulated resource systems: a fishery example. Ecological Economics, 52(4), 469–479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2004.09.018
Sumaila, U. R., & Walters, C. (2005). Intergenerational discounting: a new intuitive approach. Ecological Economics, 52(2), 135–142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2003.11.012

2004

Sumaila, U. R. (2004). Intergenerational cost–benefit analysis and marine ecosystem restoration. Fish and Fisheries, 5(4), 329–343. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-2679.2004.00166.x
Alder, J., & Sumaila, U. R. (2004). Western Africa: A Fish Basket of Europe Past and Present. The Journal of Environment & Development, 13(2), 156–178. https://doi.org/10.1177/1070496504266092
Salas, S., Sumaila, U. R., & Pitcher, T. (2004). Short-term decisions of small-scale fishers selecting alternative target species: a choice model. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 61(3), 374–383. https://doi.org/10.1139/f04-007
Atta-Mills, J., Alder, J., & Rashid Sumaila, U. (2004). The decline of a regional fishing nation: The case of Ghana and West Africa. Natural Resources Forum, 28(1), 13–21. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0165-0203.2004.00068.x
Bjørndal, T., Ussif, A. A., & Sumaila, U. R. (2004). A Bioeconomic Analysis of the Norwegian Spring Spawning Herring (NSSH) Stock. Marine Resource Economics, 19(3), 353–365. https://doi.org/10.1086/mre.19.3.42629439

2002

Munro, G., & Sumaila, U. R. (2002). The impact of subsidies upon fisheries management and sustainability: the case of the North Atlantic. Fish and Fisheries, 3(4), 233–250. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1467-2979.2002.00081.x
Pauly, D., Christensen, V., Guénette, S., Pitcher, T., Sumaila, U., Walters, C., ... Zeller, D. (2002) Towards sustainability in world fisheries. Nature 418(6898) 689-695. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature01017
Alder, J., & Sumaila, R. (2002). Theme Issue 30(2): “Economics of Marine Protected Areas.” Coastal Management, 30(3), 279–280. https://doi.org/10.1080/089207502760031262
Alder, J., Zeller, D., Pitcher, T., & Sumaila, R. (2002). A Method for Evaluating Marine Protected Area Management. Coastal Management, 30(2), 121–131. https://doi.org/10.1080/089207502753504661

2001

Armstrong, C. W., & Sumaila, U. R. (2001). Optimal Allocation of TAC and the Implications of Implementing an ITQ Management System for the North-East Arctic Cod. Land Economics, 77(3), 350–359. https://doi.org/10.2307/3147129
Hutton, T., Griffiths, M., Sumaila, U., & Pitcher, T. (2001) Cooperative versus non-cooperative management of shared linefish stocks in South Africa: an assessment of alternative management strategies for geelbek (Atractoscion aequidens). Fisheries Research 51(1) 53-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0165-7836(00)00231-9

2000

Sumaila, U. (2000). Addressing ecosystem effects of fishing using marine protected areas. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 57(3), 752–760. https://doi.org/10.1006/jmsc.2000.0732
Armstrong, C. W., & Sumaila, U. R. (2000). Cannibalism and the Optimal Sharing of the North-East Atlantic Cod Stock: a Bioeconomic Model. Journal of Bioeconomics, 2(2), 99–115. https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1011429907162
Sumaila, U. R., & Vasconcellos, M. (2000). Simulation of ecological and economic impacts of distant water fleets on Namibian fisheries. Ecological Economics, 32(3), 457–464. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0921-8009(99)00120-2

1999

Sumaila, U. R. (1999). A review of game-theoretic models of fishing. Marine Policy, 23(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0308-597x(97)00045-6

1998

Sumaila, U. R. (1998). Protected marine reserves as fisheries management tools: a bioeconomic analysis. Fisheries Research, 37(1–3), 287–296. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0165-7836(98)00144-1

1997

Sumaila, U. R. (1997). Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Exploitation of the Arcto-Norwegian Cod Stock. Environmental and Resource Economics, 10(2), 147–165.
https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1026459309123
Mackinson, S., Sumaila, U. R., & Pitcher, T. J. (1997). Bioeconomics and catchability: fish and fishers behaviour during stock collapse. Fisheries Research, 31(1–2), 11–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0165-7836(97)00020-9
SUMAILA, U. (1997) Strategic Dynamic Interaction: The Case of Barents Sea Fisheries. Marine Resource Economics 12(2) 77-93. https://doi.org/10.1086/mre.12.2.42629187

1996

Angelsen, A., & Sumaila, U. (1996) Hard Methods for Soft Policies: Environmental and Social Cost-Benefit Analysis. Forum for Development Studies 23(1) 87-114. https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.1996.9666020

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