UBC economist Rashid Sumaila wins environmental prize

A University of B.C. economist who has proposed radical solutions to save the world’s wild fisheries will receive a coveted environmental prize for his work, just as one of his recommendations is being implemented.
Rashid Sumaila will see the world’s first high seas protected area imposed in December in Antarctica, an idea at first dismissed as totally unrealistic.
“At first people thought it was crazy, but I couldn’t let it go,” explained the 2017 Volvo Environment