Ussif Rashid Sumaila

Ussif Rashid Sumaila is a professor of ocean and

fisheries economics at the University of British Ussif Rashid Sumaila
Columbia, Canada, and the Director of the Fisheries
Economics Research Unit at the UBC Institute for the
Oceans and Fisheries (formerly known as the UBC
Fisheries Centre). He is also appointed with the UBC
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. He
specializes in bioeconomics, marine ecosystem
valuation and the analysis of global issues such as
fisheries subsidies, IUU (illegal, unreported and Academic career
unregulated) fishing and the economics of high and
Field Economics
deep seas fisheries. Sumaila has experience working in
fisheries and natural resource projects in Norway, Institution UBC Institute for the Oceans
Canada and the North Atlantic region, Namibia and the and Fisheries
Southern African region, Ghana and the West African Liu Institute for Global Issues
region and Hong Kong and the South China Sea. He University of British Columbia

received his Bachelor of Science degree with honours Alma mater University of Bergen (Ph.D.)
from Ahmadu Bello University University in Nigeria University of Bergen (M.Sc.)
and received his PhD from Bergen University in Ahmadu Bello University
Norway.[1] (B.Sc.)
Contributions Resource economics
In February 2023 Sumaila was the co-recipient of the
Information (https://ideas.repec.org/e/psu49.ht
2023 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, with
ml) at IDEAS / RePEc
Daniel Pauly, which has been described as the ‘Nobel
Prize for the Environment.’[2]

Sumaila's work on international fisheries subsidies has been influential in the Doha Round of WTO
negotiations concerning subsidies and countervailing measures. Expert advice from Sumaila has been
sought by the White House, United Nations, Asian Development Bank, and Parliament in Canada and the
United Kingdom. Sumaila has also been featured in the popular documentary End of the Line.

Current projects
Scientific Director for Ocean Canada (http://oceancanada.org/)

Lead author, Conditions Working Group of the Millennium Assessment Research Group (http://www.mill
enniumassessment.org) WorldFish Centre, Penang, Malaysia.
Lead editor, Fisheries chapter of the United Nations Green Economy Report (http://web.unep.org/greenec
onomy/sites/unep.org.greeneconomy/files/field/image/3.0_fisheries.pdf).

Journal contributions
He has published articles in several journals including, Journal of Environmental Economics and
Management, Journal of Bioeconomics, Land Economics, ICES Journal of Marine Science,
Environmental and Resource Economics and Ecological Economics. Sumaila's work has generated a
great deal of interest, and has been cited by, among others, the Economist, the Boston Globe, the
International Herald Tribune and the Vancouver Sun.

Selected Publications

Brooks, C.M., Larry B. Crowder1, Lisa M. Curran, Robert B. Dunbar, David G. Ainley, Klaus
J. Dodds, Kristina M. Gjerde, U. Rashid Sumaila (2016). Science-based management in
decline in the Southern Ocean (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aah4119).
Science (2016).
Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., W. W. L Cheung, K. Bodtker, L. S. L. Teh, N. Steiner, M.
Bailey, C. Hoover, U. R. Sumaila (2016). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic
Sciences.
Teh, L.S.L., A. Witter, W.W.L. Cheung, U.R. Sumaila, X. Yin (2016). What is at stake?
Status and threats to South China Sea marine fisheries (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1
007%2Fs13280-016-0819-0) Ambio doi:10.1007/s13280-016-0819-0.
Sumaila, U. R. (2016). Socio-economic benefits of Large Marine Ecosystem valuation: The
case of Benguela Large Marine Ecosystem. Environmental Development, 17, 244–248.
Sumaila, U.R.', C. Bellmann, A. Tipping (2016). Fishing for the future: An overview of
challenges and opportunities (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X16
000087). Marine Policy, 69, 173–180.
Cinner, J. E., Huchery, C., MacNeil, M. A., Graham, N. A., McClanahan, T. R., Maina, J., ...
Sumaila, U. R. & Allison, E. H. (2016). Bright spots among the world’s coral reefs (http://ww
w.nature.com/nature/journal/v535/n7612/abs/nature18607.html?cookies=accepted). Nature,
535(7612), 416–419.
Sumaila, U.R., V. Lam, F. Le Manach, W. Swartz and D. Pauly (2016). Global fisheries
subsidies: an updated estimate (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X
16000026). Marine Policy, 69, 189–193.
Miller, D. D., Sumaila, U. R., Copeland, D., Zeller, D., Soyer, B., Nikaki, T., ... & Pauly, D.
(2016). Cutting a lifeline to maritime crime: marine insurance and IUU fishing. Frontiers in
Ecology and the Environment. doi:10.1002/fee.1293.
Bailey M., Favaro B., Otto S., Charles A., Devillers R., Metaxas A., Tyedmers P., Ban N.,
Mason T., Hoover C., Duck T.J., Fanning L., Milley C., Cisneros-Montemayor A.M., Pauly D.,
Cheung W.W., Cullis-Suzuki S., Teh L., and Sumaila U.R. (2016). The imperative of
realigning ocean policy with ocean science (https://www.dal.ca/content/dam/dalhousie/pdf/fa
culty/science/marine-affairs-program/Bailey%20et%20al.%20Crossroad.pdf). Marine Policy,
63: 53–60.
Gattuso, J.-P., Magnan, A., Billé, R., Cheung, W. W. L., Howes, E. L., Joos, F., Allemand,
D.,Bopp, L., Cooley, S., Eakin, C.M., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Kelly, R.P. Sumaila, U.R. et al.
(2015). Contrasting futures for ocean and society from different CO2 emissions scenarios (h
ttps://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aac4722). Science 349 (6243).
Cheung, W.W.L. and Sumaila, U.R. (2015). Economic incentives and overfishing: a
bioeconomic vulnerability index (https://www.int-res.com/articles/theme/m530p223.pdf). Mar
Ecol Prog Ser, 530: 223–232.
Gordon R. Munro and Sumaila, U. R. (2015). On the Contributions of Colin Clark to
Fisheries Economics. (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10640-015-9910-4)
Environmental and Resource Economics.
Teh, L.S.L and Sumaila, U.R. (2015). Global analysis of temporal trends in shared fisheries.
(https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v530/p243-254/) Mar Ecol Prog Ser 530: 243–254.
Sumaila, U.R., Hotte, N., Galli, A., Lam, V.W.Y., Cisneros-Montemayor, A.M. and
Wackernagel, M. (2015). Eco2: A simple index of economic-ecological deficits. (https://www.i
nt-res.com/articles/theme/m530p271.pdf) Mar Ecol Prog Ser 530: 271–279.
Sumaila, U.R, Vicky W.Y. Lam, Dana D. Miller, Louise Teh, Reg A. Watson, Dirk Zeller,
William W.L. Cheung, Isabelle M. Côté, Alex D. Rogers, Callum Roberts, Enric Sala, Daniel
Pauly (2015). Winners and losers in a world where the high seas is closed to fishing. (http://
www.nature.com/articles/srep08481) Scientific Reports.
Ekeland, I., Karp, L. and Sumaila, U.R. (2015). Equilibrium resource management with
altruistic overlapping generations. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009506
9614001028) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 70, 1–16.

Díaz, S., Demissew, S., Carabias, J., Joly, C., Lonsdale, M., Ash, N., Sumaila, U.R. ... &
Driver, A. (2015). The IPBES Conceptual Framework—connecting nature and people. (htt
p://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187734351400116X) Current Opinion in
Environmental Sustainability, 14, 1–16.
Tittensor, D.P., Walpole, M., Hill, S.L.L., Sumaila U.R., Teh, L.S.L et al. (2014). A mid-term
analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets. (http://wormlab.biology.dal.ca/p
ublication/view/tittensor-d-walpole-m-hill-s-boyce-d-britten-g-burgess-n-butchart-s-leadley-p-
regan-e-alkemade-r-baumung-r-bellard-c-bouwman-l-bowles-newark-n-chenery-a-cheung-w
-christensen-v-cooper/) Science 346(6206), 241–244.
Sumaila, U. R., and Bawumia, M. (2014). Fisheries, ecosystem justice and piracy: A case
study of Somalia. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016578361400143X)
Fisheries Research, 157, 154–163.
Sumaila, U.R., Dyck, A., and Baske, A. (2014). Subsidies to tuna fisheries in the Western
Pacific Ocean. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X13001383)
Marine Policy 43: 288–294.
Teh, L.S.L., Teh, L.C.L., and Sumaila, U.R. (2014). Time preference of small-scale fishers in
open access and traditionally managed reef fisheries. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc
e/article/pii/S0308597X13001942) Marine Policy 44: 222–231.
Teh, L.S.L., Teh, L.C.L., and Sumaila, U.R. (2013). A global estimate of the number of coral
reef fishers. (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0065397)
PLOS ONE 8(6), e65397.
Sumaila, U.R. (2013). How to make progress in disciplining overfishing subsidies. (http://ice
sjms.oxfordjournals.org/content/70/2/251.abstract) ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal
du Conseil 70 (2), 251–258.
Teh, L.S.L., Teh, L.C.L., Sumaila, U.R., and Cheung, W.W.L. (2013). Time Discounting and
the Overexploitation of Coral Reefs. (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10640-013-96
74-7) Environmental and Resource Economics 1-24.
Swartz, W., Sumaila, U.R., and Watson, R. (2012). Global Ex-Vessel Fish Price Database
revisited: a new approach for estimating ‘missing’ prices. (https://link.springer.com/article/10.
1007/s10640-012-9611-1) Environmental and Resource Economics, DOI: 10.1007/s10640-
012-9611-1.
Halpern, B.S., Longo, C., Hardy, D., McLeod, K.L., Samhouri, J.F., Katona, S.K., Kleisner,
K., Lester, S.E., O’Leary, J., Ranelletti, M., Rosenberg, A.A., Scarborough, C., Selig, E.R.,
 Best, B.D., Brumbaugh, D.R., Chapin, F.S., Crowder, L.B., Daly, K.L., Doney, S.C., Elfes, C.,
Fogarty, M.J., Gaines, S.D., Jacobsen, K.I., Karrer, L.B., Leslie, H.M., Neeley, E., Pauly, D.,
Polasky, S., Ris, B., St. Martin, K., Stone, G.S., Sumaila, U.R., and Zeller, D. (2012). An
index to assess the health and benefits of the global ocean. (http://www.nature.com/nature/j
ournal/v488/n7413/full/nature11397.html) Nature, 488: 615–620.
Sumaila, U.R., Cheung, W.W.L., Dyck, A., Gueye, K., Huang, L., Lam, V.W.Y., Pauly, D.,
Srinivasan, T., Swartz, W., Pauly, D., and Zeller, D. (2012). Benefits of rebuilding global
marine fisheries outweigh costs. (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.
pone.0040542) PLoS ONE 7(7), e40542, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040542.
Sumaila, U.R. (2012). Seas, Oceans and Fisheries: A Challenge for Good Governance. (htt
p://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00358533.2012.661532?journalCode=ctrt20) The
Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs 101(2), 157–166.
Sumaila, U.R. (2012). Overfishing: Call to split fisheries at home and abroad. (http://www.na
ture.com/nature/journal/v481/n7381/full/481265c.html) Nature 481, DOI:10.1038/481265c.
Sumaila, U.R. and Huang, L. (2012). Managing Bluefin Tuna in the Mediterranean Sea. (htt
p://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X1100145X) Marine Policy, 36, 502–
511.
Sumaila, U.R., Cisneros-Montemayor, A.M., Dyck, A., Huang, L., Cheung, W., Jacquet, J.,
Kleisner, K., Lam, V., McCrea-Strub, A., Swartz, W., Watson, R., Zeller, D. & Pauly, D.
(2012). Impact of the Deepwater Horizon well blowout on the Economics of U.S. Gulf
fisheries. (http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/f2011-171) Canadian Journal
of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 69, 499–510, DOI: 10.1139/f2011-171.
Collette, B.B., Sumaila, U.R., and others (2011). High Value and Long Life—Double
Jeopardy for Tunas and Billfishes. Science (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.12
08730), 333, 291–292.

Books and book contributions

Edited

Sumaila, U.R. (2013). Game Theory and Fisheries: Essays on the Tragedy of Free for All
Fishing. Routledge, London, UK, p. 178.
Noone, K.J., Sumaila, U.R., and Diaz, R.J. (eds.) (2013). Managing Ocean Environments in
a Changing Climate: Sustainability and Economic Perspectives. Elsevier, London, UK,
p. 359.

Bjørndal, T., Gordon, D.V., Arnason, R., and Sumaila, U.R. (eds.) (2006). Advances in
Fisheries Economics: Papers in Honour of Professor Gordon Munro, Blackwell, Oxford,
p. 308.
Sumaila, U.R., Boyer, D., Skog, M., and Steinshamm, S.I. (eds.) (2004). Namibia's
fisheries: Ecological, economic and social aspects. Eburon, Netherlands, p. 363.
Kowero, G., Campbell, B.M., and Sumaila, U.R. (eds.) (2003). Policies and governance
structures in woodlands of Southern Africa. CIFOR Press, Indonesia, p. 211.

Special Journal Issues

 Sumaila, U. R. and K. I. Stergiou (2015). Economics of marine conservation. Mar Ecol Prog
Ser Vol. 530:177-279.
Sumaila, U.R. (2015). On the Contributions of Colin Clark to Fisheries Economics
Environmental and Resource Economics, May 2015, Volume 61, Issue 1. (editor of Special
Issue).
Sumaila, U.R., Arnason, R., and Lange, G.-M. (eds.) (2010). Global Fisheries Economics,
Journal of Bioeconomics, 12, 179–268.
Chuenpagdee, R. and Sumaila, U.R. (eds) (2010). Fisheries Governance. Fish and
Fisheries, 11, 233–314.
Sumaila, U.R., Adinar, A., and Albiac, J. (eds.) (2009). Game theoretic applications to
environmental and natural resource problems. Environment and Development Economics,
14, 1–137.

Sumaila, U.R., Charles, T., and Sylvia, G. (eds.) (2007). Topical Problems in Fisheries
Economics: An Introduction. Marine Resource Economics.
Sumaila, U.R., Munro, G., and Sutinen, J. (eds.) (2007). Recent Developments in Fisheries
Economics. Special Issue of Land Economics, 83, 1–107.
Sumaila, U.R. and Charles, A. (eds.) (2002a). Economics of protected marine areas.
Special Issue of Natural Resource Modeling, 15 (3 ), 261–386.
Sumaila, U.R. and Charles, A. (eds.) (2002b). Economics of protected marine areas.
Special Issue of Natural Resource Modeling, 15 (4), 387–505. Climate, oceans and the law
of special and general adaptation
Alder, J. and Sumaila, U. R. (eds.) (2002). Social and economic aspects of protected
marine areas implementation. Special Issue of Coastal Management, 30(2), 121–191.

See also
The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat
High Seas Fisheries Management

References
1. UBC Fisheries Website CV link (http://www.fisheries.ubc.ca/archive/members/rsumaila/sum
aila-cvjan2007.pdf)
2. "UBC's Daniel Pauly and Rashid Sumaila win Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement" (h
ttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/980076). EurekAlert!. Retrieved February 23, 2023.

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