Sarah Ruth Sutcliffe

Fishermen weigh a basket full of fish off the Indian ocean’s archipelago of Lamu on Kenya’s coast. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images

January 13, 2022

How COVID affected markets and livelihoods in Kenya’s fisheries sector

Mbaru Emmanuel, Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute; Jacqueline Lau, James Cook University, and Sarah Ruth Sutcliffe, James Cook University

COVID-19 greatly disrupted local market dynamics at landing sites, within the communities, and connections to more distant markets.

Dean Miller

December 16, 2020

‘We didn’t have money or enough food’: how COVID‑19 affected Papua New Guinean fishing families

Jacqueline Lau, James Cook University and Sarah Ruth Sutcliffe, James Cook University

Decision-makers, locally and globally, must balance management of pandemics with a recognition that fish and fishing communities are essential to local well being.

Getting up close and personal can make you like sharks more, even if you already like them. Juan Oliphant

September 7, 2018

Shark tourism can change your mind about these much‑maligned predators

Michele Barnes, James Cook University and Sarah Ruth Sutcliffe, James Cook University

Sharks have a PR problem. But new research shows that shark ecotourism programs boost people’s knowledge and attitudes towards shark conservation – even among those who are green-minded to begin with.

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How COVID affected markets and livelihoods in Kenya’s fisheries sector

‘We didn’t have money or enough food’: how COVID‑19 affected Papua New Guinean fishing families

Shark tourism can change your mind about these much‑maligned predators

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