SSJ Friends,
YCAPS is pleased to invite you to the webinar below. Associate Professor Quentin Hanich will be unpacking the story behind the "ghost ships" that have been washing up on Japan's West Coast.

Best regards,
John Bradford

DPRK Ghost Ships & PRC Dark Fleets
YCAPS Indo-Pacific Maritime Hour (via Google Meet)
Monday, October 12, 2020, 2 PM (Honolulu), 8 PM (Washington DC),
Tuesday, October 13, 2020, 8 AM (Singapore), 9 AM (Tokyo), 11 AM (Sydney)

YCAPS is pleased to announce its first Indo-Pacific Maritime Hour. The webinar will feature Professor Quentin Hanich discussing the findings of a collaborative study between Global Fishing Watch, Japan's Fisheries and Research Education Centre, and the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, Global Fishing Watch Report, Illuminating Dark Fishing Fleets in North Korea. The study found that more than 900 vessels of Chinese origin in 2017 and 700 vessels in 2018 likely violated United Nations sanctions by fishing in North Korean waters. These vessels also likely caught almost as much Pacific flying squid as Japan and South Korea vessels combined and the previously unidentified vessels pose a huge challenge for squid stock management. The resultant shortage is also found to be directly related to the hundreds of North Korean boats that have washed ashore on Japanese and Russian coasts in recent years. These "Ghost Ship" incidents often involve starvation and deaths, and many fishing villages on North Korea's eastern coast have now been coined "widows' villages."

To join please go to https://meet.google.com/gkr-fved-tqp

Associate Professor Quentin Hanich 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. Associate Prof Hanich has worked widely throughout the Asia-Pacific 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, and 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 highly ranked Elsevier journal Marine Policy, a Principal Investigator in the Nippon Foundation-funded Ocean Nexus Program, a research partner with the Japanese Fisheries Research and Education Agency and Global Fishing Watch, and an Adjunct Scholar at Dalhousie University.

Webinar Cost: Free of charge
Please register by RSVP to info@ycaps.org. RSVP not required, but helpful for organizers.