The oceans need our protection – and our lives depend on them

Ussif Rashid Sumaila, a UBC professor and research director of the SSHRC-funded OceanCanada partnership, co-wrote a Globe and Mail op-ed on the contributions of oceans to society.

“We must reduce our consumptive lifestyles – curtailing both our greenhouse-gas emissions and use of plastics – while supporting community-based and ecologically responsible ocean food systems,” he wrote.