On February 22, The Pew Charitable Trusts announced 2017 Pew Marine Fellow List. Tang Jianye, young teacher of SHOU College of Marine Sciences and Director of the Pelagic Fishery Strategic Research Room of Chinese National Engineering Research Center, waselected as the only Chinese entrant in 2017 and the only entrant from Chinese higher education system so far.

As an influential program in the global marine field, Pew Marine Fellows Program aims both topromote global marine scientists with great potentials to address the difficulties and challenges encountered in the global marine industry, and to subsidize excellent scientists all over the world. The selection of marine fellows follows a very rigorous nomination and review procedure, and isultimately decided by a selecting committee consisting of well-known marine experts based on the contributions of application programs to marine environmental protection. Since established in 1996, it has elected a total of 156 marine fellows from 37 countries. In 2017, 11 scientists from ninecountries have been elected.

Tang Jianye is mainly engaged in researches on international fisheries laws, and, as a member of the Chinese government delegation, he has attended the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) Conference, Government Consultations on High Seas Fisheries in the Arctic Ocean and FAO Expert Committee. At the beginning of 2016, nominated by Chen Yong, Professor of the University of Maine and SHOU and recommended by other three experts, Tang Jianye submitted his application themed by “Strengthening China’s Pelagic Fishery Management”; after rounds of selection, he was finally elected. A Chinese scholar being elected as Pew Marine Fellow will facilitate integration into international well-known marine expert academic groups and promote the internationalization of academic researches.