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In collaboration with the Japan Ocean Policy Research Foundation (OPRF), the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) has co-hosted an Australia-Japan Comparative Oceans Policy Symposium on 11-13 November. The symposium is part of the ongoing collaborative research partnership between OPRF and ANCORS at the University of Wollongong and is intended to foster research into ocean issues of mutual interest.

OPRF is a Japanese independent research organisation, funded by the Nippon Foundation. The Executive Director of the OPRF, Mr Hiroshi Terashima, opened the presentations on the Japanese Ocean Policy. The symposium includes experts and government officials from Japan and Australia and is one of a number of collaborative workshops planned on ocean issues. A third symposium is being planned for January 2010 in Tokyo to follow up on issues of islands and ocean management.

ANCORS congratulates Dr Robin Warner and Prof Martin Tsamenyi for a successful Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant for their project entitled, “Harnessing the oceans to combat climate change: Developing law and policy frameworks for ocean energy and climate change mitigation.” A summary of other successful UOW ARC grants is available here.

The Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong, is pleased to offer a new Masters degree in fisheries policy from Autumn (February) 2010, to complement its existing Master of Maritime Policy and postgraduate research degree
programmes.

The Master of Fisheries Policy degree is a one-year (full time) multidisciplinary programme designed for fisheries and environmental policy officers, mid-level managers and enforcement officers from governments, and regional and international organisations. The degree covers international, regional and national frameworks for sustainable fisheries management and provides the fisheries policy knowledge and skills necessary for the management of fisheries and aquatic resources.

For more information, read the Master of Fisheries Policy brochure or contact: Dr Chris Rahman or Dr Mary Ann Palma

The Commonwealth Secretariat has just published “From Hook to Plate: The State of Marine Fisheries – A Commonwealth perspective”. The book draws together the views of 24 contributors from across the Commonwealth on the state of marine capture fisheries and includes a chapter by ANCORS Senior Research Fellow Quentin Hanich and ANCORS Director Professor Martin Tsamenyi on “Development in Co-operative Approaches to Fisheries Management in the Pacific Islands Region”. The book confirms the assessments of both the World Bank and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation that world fisheries are in very poor biological and economic health. For more information about the book and to order a copy, please click here.

Dr Sam Bateman, ANCORS Professorial Research Fellow, recently released a new book, Sea Change: Advancing Australia's Ocean Interests, co-written with Dr Anthony Bergin. For more information about the book and to order a hard copy, please click here. Or dowload PDF here.

Dr Robin Warner’s new book “Protecting the Oceans Beyond National Jurisdiction: Strengthening the International Law Framework” has just been published by Martinus Nijhoff Brill in their Legal Aspects of Sustainable Development series. For more information about the book, please visit the Brill website here.

The Commonwealth Secretariat has just published “Fairer Fishing?: The Impact on Developing Countries of the European Community Regulation on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fisheries” by Martin Tsamenyi, Mary Ann Palma, Ben Milligan, Kwame Mfodwo in its Economic Paper Series. For more information on this paper, please click here.

The March 2009 edition of the international journal, Marine Policy, included a publication by ANCORS Senior Research Fellow, Quentin Hanich and Professor Martin Tsamenyi, "Managing Fisheries and Corruption in the Pacific Islands Region."