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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 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.