Professor, scientist, fisheries engineer, researcher and Brazil’s representative in international negotiations on fisheries management, FábioHissa Vieira Hazin succumbed to COVID-19 on 8 June 2021, World Oceans Day. Fabio Hazin was stricken with COVID-19 a week before the opening of vaccination for university professors in Recife, his hometown in Brazil. His health deteriorated rapidly. He was hospitalized for 11 days, eight on a ventilator. In the end he died of intracranial bleeding.