"We know what to do — we just have to find a way to do it”
Ocean economist Dr Rashid Sumaila will be discussing overfishing as a key concern a =t the World Ocean Day conference in Cork's City Hall.
Dr Rashid Sumaila, an ocean economist, who is a joint winner of the prestigious 2023 Tyler Prize for the Environment Award (dubbed the ‘Nobel Prize for the environment’), is the keynote speaker at the inaugural Fair Seas World Ocean Day Conference.
He is a professor of ocean and fisheries economics at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He specialises in bioeconomics, marine ecosystem valuation and the analysis of global issues such as fisheries subsidies, IUU (illegal, unreported and unregulated) fishing and the economics of high and deep sea fisheries.
