Conservation, Development and Collective Power in the Tuna-Political Indo-Pacific

About Bianca HaasQuentin Hanich

A/Prof Quentin Hanich is a regionally respected expert on Pacific Ocean Governance Fisheries Management and Marine Conservation. He leads the Fisheries Governance Research Program at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) University of Wollongong where he is a Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Chair. A/Prof Hanich has worked widely throughout the Asia Pacific region in various international research partnerships focusing on ocean governance and emerging technologies marine conservation fisheries management and development. He has chaired international working groups at treaty meetings facilitated inter-governmental workshops advised Ministerial meetings and national delegations. In addition to his roles at the University of Wollongong A/Prof Hanich is the Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Marine Policy a Principal Investigator in the Nippon Foundation funded Ocean Nexus Program and a research partner with the Japanese Fisheries Research and Education Agency and Global Fishing Watch. Dr Bianca Haas is a research fellow at ANCORS and works on equity issues in transboundary fisheries management focusing on tuna fisheries in the Indian and Western and Central Pacific Oceans. She is especially interested in the issue of disproportionate burden allocation and the availability of science and data. Additionally she works on crew labour issues in fisheries and the Agreement for Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction.