Biography

Dr. Ussif Rashid Sumaila is Associate Professor and Director of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit at UBC Fisheries Centre. He specializes in bioeconomics, marine ecosystem valuation and the analysis of global issues such as fisheries subsidies, IUU (illegal, unreported and unregulated) fishing and the economics of high and deep seas fisheries. Sumaila has experience working in fisheries and natural resource projects in Norway, Canada and the North Atlantic region, Namibia and the Southern African region, Ghana and the West African region and Hong Kong and the South China Sea. He has published articles in several journals including, Journal of Environmental Economicsand 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 Refereed Publications

Sharp, R. and U.R. Sumaila (2009). Quantification of U.S. Marine Fisheries Subsidies. North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 29, 18-32.

Sumaila, U.R., Dale Marsden, Reg Watson, and Daniel Pauly (in press)Globalex-vessel fish price database: construction and applications Journal of Bioeconomics.

Teh, L., D. Zeller, A.S. Cabanban, L. Teh and U.R. Sumaila (in press) Seasonality and Historic Trends in the Reef Fisheries of Pulau Banggi, Sabah,Malaysia. Coral Reefs.

Clark, C.M., G. Munro and U.R. Sumaila (in press). Buyback, subsidies,the time consistency problem and the ITQ alternative. Land Economics.

Abdallah, P.R. and U.R. Sumaila (in press). A historical account of Brazilian policy on fisheries subsidies. Marine Policy.

Sumaila, U.R., D. Zeller, R. Watson, J. Alder and D. Pauly (in press). Potential costs and benefits of marine reserves in the high seas. Marine Ecology Progress Series.

Sumaila, U.R. and C. Walters (2007). Making future generations count: Comment on “Remembering the future”. Ecological Economics 60(3),487-488.

Sumaila, U.R., J. Volpe and Y.Liu (2007). Potential economic benefitsfrom sablefish farming in British Columbia. Marine Policy 31(2) 81-84.

Perry, R.I. and U.R. Sumaila (2007). Marine ecosystem variabilityand human community responses: the example of Ghana, West Africa. Marine Policy 31(2) 125-134.

Sumaila, U.R. and C.W. Armstrong (2006). Distributional and efficiencyeffects of marine protected areas: A study of the Northeast Atlantic cod fishery. Land Economics, 82 (3) 321-332.

Berman, M. and U.R. Sumaila (2006). Discounting, amenity values andmarine ecosystem restoration. Marine Resource Economics. 21 (2) 211-219.

Sumaila, U.R, J. Alder and H. Keith (2006). Global scope and economicsof illegal fishing. Marine Policy, 30(6): 696-703.

Sumaila, U.R. (2005). Differences in economic perspectives and the implementation of ecosystem-based management of marine resources. Marine EcologyProgress Series, 279-282.

Teh, L., A. Cabanban and U. R. Sumaila (2005). The reef fisheries of Pulau Banggi, Sabah: A preliminary profile and assessment of ecological and socio-economic sustainability. Fisheries Research, 76(3), 359-367.

Clark, C.W., G. Munro and U.R. Sumaila (2005). Subsidies, buybacks,and sustainable fisheries. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management,50, 47-58.

Sumaila, U.R. and C. Walters (2005). Intergenerational discounting: A new intuitive approach. Ecological Economics, 52, 135-142.

Ainsworth, C.H. and U.R. Sumaila (2005). Intergenerational valuationof fisheries resources can justify long-term conservation: a case study in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences,62, 1104-1110.

Sumaila, U.R. (2004). Intergenerational cost benefit analysis and marine ecosystem restoration. Fish and Fisheries, 5, 329-343.

Salas, S., U.R. Sumaila and T. Pitcher (2004). Short-term decisions of small scale fishers selecting alternative target species: a choice model. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, 61, 374-383.

Bjørndal, T. A. Ussif and U. R. Sumaila (2004). A bioeconomic analysis of the Norwegian spring spawning herring stock. Marine Resource Economics,19, 353-365.

Pauly, D., V. Christensen, S. Guenette, T.J. Pitcher, U.R. Sumaila, C.J. Walters, R. Watson and D. Zeller (2002). Towards sustainability in world fisheries. Nature, 418, 689-695.

Teaching

• Environmental Economics (Undergraduate, 2003, UBC);
• Land and Forestry Economics (Graduate, 2002, UBC);
• Critical Issues in Fisheries (Graduate, 2002, UBC);
• Fisheries Economics (Graduate, 2002, UBC);
• Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (Graduate, 1999-2001, University of Tromsø);
• Natural Resource Economics (Undergraduate, 1999-present, University of Namibia);
• Applied Game Theory (Graduate, 2000, UBC).

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