Where Have All The Fish Gone?

Within the last 50 years, the abundance of large predatory fish in the oceans has fallen by 90 per cent. What are ecological consequences of this loss, and how has overfishing drastically changed the oceans? These are two of the questions to be addressed in an upcoming public lecture by Dr. Ransom Myers, the Killam Chair of Ocean Studies at Dalhousie University. Myers was recently selected by Fortune Magazine as one of the world’s “Top Ten to Watch”—people who will change the way the world operates over the next 75 years. The magazine predicts that Myers’ work on fish population dynamics will foster “new and better ways to husband the wealth beneath the sea.”

“The Global Loss of Top Predators in the Ocean: Consequences of a World Without Sharks, Tuna and Great Fish”
Thursday, 28 September, 7:30 p.m.
David Lam auditorium, Maclaurin Building

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