It is the summer of 2002 in the Southern Ocean. The seas are rough and a ship is hauling in a longline that was set at a depth of more than a thousand meters. The catch is illegally caught Patagonian toothfish—a white-fleshed predatory fish in the Antarctic. It is hauled on board, removed from the […]
Author Archives: Henrik Österblom
Henrik Österblom is Associate Professor and Deputy Science Director at Stockholm Resilience Centre. His primary focus in research is on a multidisciplinary understanding of the dynamics of marine social-ecological systems. Henrik has experience in working with research on environmental governance of the Baltic Sea and with international fisheries management. He received his PhD in Marine Ecology at Stockholm University and did a post doc on fisheries in the Southern Ocean, at the University of British Columbia and at the University of Tasmania. Henrik has worked several years for the Swedish Government, as an advisor to the Minister of Environment.