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December 14, 2019 | Climate ChangeFisheriesEcology

The Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at UBC in Vancouver just released a report on “Dynamic Integrated Marine Climate, Biodiversity, Fisheries, Aquaculture and Seafood Market Model (DIVERSE)”, which is co-authored by director (science) William Cheung (UBC) and research fellow Muhammed Oyinlola (UBC). It is part of the Fisheries Centre Research Reports, which are annual reports publishing the results of “research work carried out, or workshops held, at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries” at UBC. This report focuses on using the DIVERSE model to project the future of sustainable seafood under global change, and consists of the following seven chapters:

  1. Dynamic Integrated Marine Climate, Biodiversity, Fisheries, Aquaculture and Seafood Market Model (DIVERSE): introducing the framework
  2. Climate-living marine resources model to project future changes in fish stock biomass and catches
  3. Dynamics of fishing effort
  4. Model for global mariculture production under climate change
  5. Seafood market model
  6. Scenarios for the future of the ocean and fisheries
  7. Scenarios for the future of mariculture

The full report is open access, and can be viewed here.

Reference:

Cheung, William W. L., Oyinlola, Muhammed A. (2019). Dynamic Integrated Marine Climate, Biodiversity, Fisheries, Aquaculture and Seafood Market Model (DIVERSE). Fisheries Centre Research Reports 27(3): 125pp.

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