On the sixth session of Working Party on Temperate Tunas (WPTmT) of Indian Ocean Tuna Committee (IOTC) hosted by SHOU from July 18 to 21, 2016, Associate Professor Zhu Jiangfeng from SHOU College of Oceanography, was elected as Chairman of WPTmT, which is a new breakthrough that Chinese researchers made in the assuming important positions in the regional fishery management organization. Professor Xu Liuxiong, Director of SHOU Tuna Technology Group has been elected as Deputy President of the 6th and 7th IOTC Sub-Committee of Science.
Zhu Jiangfeng received his master degree from SHOU in 2004 and started teaching. Since then, he has been engaged in the study of tuna fishery resources. In 2006, he participated in the Fishery Resources Survey in Guinea Bissau, West Africa (during which he worked at sea for six months). In 2008, he assumed the position of Pacific tuna scientific observer, for which he worked at sea for three months. In 2009, he further studied resource assessment in the laboratory of SHOU Distinguished Professor Chen Yong located in the University of Maine. In 2010, he got his doctoral degree there (His advisors were Chen Xinjun and Chen Yong). In 2015, he studied the tuna resources assessment model at the secretariat of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission. Since the year of 2009, as a representative of the Chinese Tuna Science, he participated in more than 10 Pacific & Indian Ocean tuna science meetings, and submitted more than 10 papers on resources evaluation, work reports, and national reports.
IOTC is an intergovernmental regional fishery management organization under the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), responsible for scientific research and task management in tuna resources and its ecological system in Indian Ocean, to which China is a member. At this time, the successful election of Dr. Zhu Jiangfeng as chairman of the IOTC science working group is the result of common support and effort of SHOU and College of Oceanography over the years, and it embodies that China's current research level and influence in tuna fishery has been fully recognized and affirmed by our foreign counterparts.
