The Threat to
the World's Oceans – Measuring Canada's Options
with
Jeffrey Hutchings
Dalhousie University
Since the 1960s, more than one and a half billion cod have
vanished
from Newfoundland and Labrador waters. Why have these and
other fish
populations not recovered despite massive reductions in fishing?
Is
this the marine equivalent of the hunting of the buffalo?
Have ocean
environments been altered permanently? Dr. Hutchings has been
studying the collapse and recovery of marine fishes since
1992. He
will reveal what scientists have learned from the cod declines
as
well as introduce, with reference to the newly proclaimed
Species at
Risk Act, ideas on how Canada can forge a leading international
role
in the recovery of marine ecosystems, fisheries and coastal
communities.
Jeffrey Hutchings is Canada Research Chair in Marine Conservation
and
Biodiversity in the Department of Biology at Dalhousie University.
His research on the evolutionary ecology of fishes has taken
him to
remote areas of Newfoundland and the Arctic to study cod.
A member
of the Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel on the Future
of Food
Biotechnology (2000-01), he is currently an Editor of the
Canadian
Journal of Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences and a Non-Government
Member
of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada
(COSEWIC).
Simultaneous translation will be provided.
Co-Sponsors:
--the Speaker of the Senate, the Hon. Daniel Hays
--the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Hon. Peter Milliken
--Partnership Group for Science and Engineering (PAGSE)
--NSERC
DATE: Thursday, September 25, 2003 from 7:30 am - 9:00 am
PLACE: Room 200, West Block, Parliament Hill, OTTAWA
COST: No charge to Members of the House of Commons, Senators
and Parliamentary Press Gallery members. All others - $10.
PRE-REGISTRATION by Friday, September 19th is required.
Please register by contacting Donna Boag, PAGSE Coordinator,
email: pagse@rsc.ca,
tel: (613) 991-6369, fax: (613) 991-6996.
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