September 9th 2010

Can two rights make a wrong? With Australia and Japan digging in deep at opposite ends of the whaling and tuna fishing debates, will all parties risk losing more than they gain – with whales and tuna suffering most?

This public lecture maps the complex, volatile and highly political relationships between Australia and Japan in terms of whaling, from which we make nothing, and tuna exports that reap us millions. It questions the motives of governments and conservationists in these disputes and considers new ways forward, where sustainable, win-win solutions may be found and marine life can be better protected.

Dr Kate Barclay

Kate Barclay is one of the few social scientists in Australia researching tuna fisheries in the Asia Pacific region. Last year she coordinated a workshop called Green Tuna: Market-Based and Government-Based Measures for Improving Sustainability in Tuna Industries. In recent years she has attracted funding from AusAid, the National Library and the ARC to conduct research that includes Taiwan and China tuna fisheries and Japanese fisheries governance. Other projects have included fisheries trade-related development in Solomon Islands for the United Nations Development Agency and global trade in tuna products from the south west Pacific for TRAFFIC Oceania. Kate is published in top international journals in her two fields of fisheries social science and Asian studies.

Introduced by

Dr Malcolm Cook, Program Director, East Asia at the Lowy Institute for International Policy

Resources

• flyer (PDF 172k)
• presentation slides (PDF 295k)
• audio recording (MP3 25.1 MB)
• video (Opens video presentation) A transcript is available.

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