Ussif Rashid Sumaila
Ussif Rashid Sumaila is a professor of ocean and fisheries economics at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and the Director of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit at the UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries. He specializes in bioeconomics, marine ecosystem valuation and the analysis of global issues such as fisheries subsidies, IUU 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 received his Bachelor of Science degree with honours from Ahmadu Bello University University in Nigeria and received his PhD from Bergen University in Norway.
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.
Current projects
Scientific Director forLead author, Conditions Working Group of the WorldFish Centre, Penang, Malaysia.
Lead editor, Fisheries chapter of the United Nations .
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. . Science.
- Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., W. W. L Cheung, K. Bodtker, L. S. L. Teh, N. Steiner, M. Bailey, C. Hoover, U. R. Sumaila. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
- Teh, L.S.L., A. Witter, W.W.L. Cheung, U.R. Sumaila, X. Yin. Ambio doi:10.1007/s13280-016-0819-0.
- Sumaila, U. R.. 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. . 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.. . Nature, 535, 416-419.
- Sumaila, U.R., V. Lam, F. Le Manach, W. Swartz and D. Pauly. . Marine Policy, 69, 189-193.
- Miller, D. D., Sumaila, U. R., Copeland, D., Zeller, D., Soyer, B., Nikaki, T.,... & Pauly, D.. 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.. . 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.. . Science 349.
- Cheung, W.W.L. and Sumaila, U.R.. . Mar Ecol Prog Ser, 530: 223–232.
- Gordon R. Munro and Sumaila, U. R.. Environmental and Resource Economics.
- Teh, L.S.L and Sumaila, U.R.. 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.. 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. Scientific Reports.
- Ekeland, I., Karp, L. and Sumaila, U.R.. 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.. 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.. Science 346, 241-244.
- Sumaila, U. R., and Bawumia, M.. Fisheries Research, 157, 154-163.
- Sumaila, U.R., Dyck, A., and Baske, A.. Marine Policy 43: 288-294.
- Teh, L.S.L., Teh, L.C.L., and Sumaila, U.R.. Marine Policy 44: 222-231.
- Teh, L.S.L., Teh, L.C.L., and Sumaila, U.R.. PLOS ONE 8, e65397.
- Sumaila, U.R.. ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil 70, 251-258.
- Teh, L.S.L., Teh, L.C.L., Sumaila, U.R., and Cheung, W.W.L.. Environmental and Resource Economics 1-24.
- Swartz, W., Sumaila, U.R., and Watson, R.. 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.. 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.. PLoS ONE 7, e40542, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040542.
- Sumaila, U.R.. The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs 101, 157-166.
- Sumaila, U.R.. Nature 481, DOI:10.1038/481265c.
- Sumaila, U.R. and Huang, L.. 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.. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 69, 499-510, DOI: 10.1139/f2011-171.
- Collette, B.B., Sumaila, U.R., and others. , 333, 291-292.
Books and book contributions
- Sumaila, U.R.. 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. . 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. . 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. . Namibia’s fisheries: Ecological, economic and social aspects. Eburon, Netherlands, p. 363.
- Kowero, G., Campbell, B.M., and Sumaila, U.R. . Policies and governance structures in woodlands of Southern Africa. CIFOR Press, Indonesia, p. 211.
;Special Journal Issues
- Sumaila, U. R. and K. I. Stergiou. Economics of marine conservation. Mar Ecol Prog Ser Vol. 530:177-279.
- Sumaila, U.R.. On the Contributions of Colin Clark to Fisheries Economics Environmental and Resource Economics, May 2015, Volume 61, Issue 1..
- Sumaila, U.R., Arnason, R., and Lange, G.-M. . Global Fisheries Economics, Journal of Bioeconomics, 12, 179-268.
- Chuenpagdee, R. and Sumaila, U.R. . Fisheries Governance. Fish and Fisheries, 11, 233-314.
- Sumaila, U.R., Adinar, A., and Albiac, J. . Game theoretic applications to environmental and natural resource problems. Environment and Development Economics, 14, 1-137.
- Sumaila, U.R., Charles, T., and Sylvia, G. . Topical Problems in Fisheries Economics: An Introduction. Marine Resource Economics.
- Sumaila, U.R., Munro, G., and Sutinen, J. . Recent Developments in Fisheries Economics. Special Issue of Land Economics, 83, 1-107.
- Sumaila, U.R. and Charles, A. . Economics of protected marine areas. Special Issue of Natural Resource Modeling, 15, 261-386.
- Sumaila, U.R. and Charles, A. . Economics of protected marine areas. Special Issue of Natural Resource Modeling, 15, 387-505. Climate, oceans and the law of special and general adaptation
- Alder, J. and Sumaila, U. R. . Social and economic aspects of protected marine areas implementation. Special Issue of Coastal Management, 30, 121-191.