Drs Rashid Sumaila and Daniel Pauly were cited in the New York Times article "In Mackerel's plunder, hints of epic fish collapse" by Mort Rosenblum and Mar Cabra, published January 25 2012. Rosenblum and Cabra write:

"the fate of this one fish reflects a bigger picture: decades of unchecked global fishing pushed by geopolitical rivalry, greed, corruption, mismanagement and public indifference. Daniel Pauly, an eminent University of British Columbia oceanographer, sees jack mackerel in the southern Pacific as an alarming indicator.'This is the last of the buffaloes,' he said. 'When they’re gone, everything will be gone.'"

Rosenblum and Cabra point to fishing subsidies as a big part of the problem, noting that "[a] landmark report by Rashid Sumaila, along with Dr. Pauly and others at the University of British Columbia, estimated total global subsidies in 2003 — the latest available data — at $25 billion to $29 billion."

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