Talk · May 2025Panel on smart agriculture and sustainability, MENAfrica Digital SummitUniversity of Tunis El ManarA panel on digital transformation and artificial intelligence in Tunisia’s agriculture and fisheries: what new tools can do for fishers and farmers, what they mean for food and livelihood security, and why traditional knowledge must not be lost along the way. The video of the panel is on the page.
Radio · February 2025A recipe for climate adaptation? Try blue crab couscousGuest on the CBC programme “What on Earth?”How climate change is reshaping fisheries and how communities adapt, told through the blue crab: an invasive species that arrived in Tunisian waters with warming seas and became a fishery and a dish. Listen on the CBC page.
Profile · August 2024Alum pushing for truly global fisheries scienceUBC ScienceA profile by the Faculty of Science at the University of British Columbia on Dr. Khalfallah’s path from Tunis to Vancouver and their case for a fisheries science that covers the countries the data leave out.
Press · August 2024Egyptian fisheries need urgent action to combat effects of overexploitation and climate changeNature Middle EastCoverage of the study reconstructing a century of Egypt’s Mediterranean catches (1920–2019), published in Ocean & Coastal Management, which shows overexploitation, “fishing down” and climate change acting together on the same fisheries.
Press · September 2023Egyptian Mediterranean fisheries in urgent need of better managementSea Around Us · also covered by Phys.orgThe Sea Around Us news piece on the Egyptian study when it first appeared: what the reconstructed catches reveal that official statistics do not, and what that means for management.
Podcast · February 2022Magouilles du plastique: lobbying by the plastics industryInkyfada, Planète plastique, episode 4An episode of the Inkyfada series on plastics, recorded around the Plastic Expo in Tunis. Dr. Khalfallah joins at 16:47 to talk about lobbying by the plastics industry and its effect on regulation. In French.
Profile · June 2020Putting the spotlight on Southern Mediterranean and Arabian Peninsula fisheriesSea Around Us, on the PhD defenceOn the doctoral research: reconstructing the catches of the southern Mediterranean and Arabian Peninsula countries, where a large part of what is caught never enters the official statistics, and what the corrected series show.
Press · May 2018Climate change to cause dramatic drop in Persian Gulf biodiversity and fisheries potentialPhys.org, quoting the study · also Sea Around Us, ICSF and UBC OceansCoverage of the study, co-authored by Dr. Khalfallah, projecting how warming and rising salinity could cut the Gulf’s marine biodiversity and fisheries potential by the middle of the century, and which countries stand to lose most.
Press · July 2017700 tonnes of fish lost in discard, subsistence and recreational catches every yearMaltaToday, on the Malta reconstruction · also Sea Around UsOn the reconstruction of Malta’s catches: discards, subsistence and recreational fishing add roughly 700 tonnes a year that the official statistics never recorded.
Myriam Khalfallah 