In a new paper just published in PLoS ONE, myself and coauthors Vienna Saccomanno, Matthew Warham, Laura Lea Rubino, Anna Schuhbauer, U. Rashid Sumaila, and Christopher Costello present the decision support tool we created to help inform negotiations at the World Trade Organization about reforming fisheries subsidies. Our paper entitled “SubsidyExplorer: A decision-support tool to improve our understanding of the ecological and economic effects of reforming fisheries subsidies” explains how the…

In a new paper just published in Environmental Research Letters, myself and coauthors Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbez, Darcy Bradley, Matthew Burgess, Hunter Lenihan, and Christopher Costello propose a new institution to finance enforcement of marine protected areas. Our paper entitled “Self-financed marine protected areas” shows how this new institution—a ‘conservation finance area’ (CFA)—can help to remedy poaching in a MPA by allowing limited fishing leases and using the lease money to finance…

In a letter just published in Science, I joined 295 other hundred scientists from 255 institutions in 46 countries to ask members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to ban harmful fisheries subsidies at the 12th Ministerial Conference. Spearheaded by Dr. Rashid Sumaila at the University of British Colombia, this letter entitled “WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies” reiterates how the WTO is in a unique position to ban harmful fisheries subsidies and thus help to curb overfishing,…