On July 19~20, the International Workshop on TURFs for Marine Fisheries Management was held in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province. Present at the workshop were professor Tang Yi and associate professor Yang Yang from the College of Marine Culture and Law; associate professor Li Xin from the College of Economics and Management; and the graduates of SHOU. Tang Yi presented the first theme report of the workshop entitled “Exploration of Right-based Fishery Management Theories and Their Applicability in China”, directed section discussion, and summed up the workshop.

The workshop was sponsored by China Society of Fisheries, Zhoushan Oceanic and Fishery Bureau and Environmental Defense Fund. A total of more than 40 people attended the workshop, including government officers, researchers of colleges, universities and research institutions and representatives of related organizations from US, Japan, Mexico, Belize, the Philippines and China. Chinese representatives who attended the workshop and gave their speeches were Zhang Xianliang, Chief of the Fisheries Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs; Chen Yuanjing, Deputy Chief of the Oceanic and Fishery Department of Zhejiang Province; Zhang Wen, Deputy Secretary-General of China Society of Fisheries; and John Mimikakis, Vice President of the Asia-Pacific Marine Program of Environmental Defense Fund.

As an international exchange symposium held upon the 40th anniversary of China’s reform and opening-up, this workshop aims to deepen China’s fishery management reform, promote the development of worldwide fishery management system reform, and facilitate the realization of sustainable fisheries.

Based on global perspectives and the cases of their countries, many distinguished guests engaged in in-depth exchanges about the practice of TURFs for marine fisheries management, including Steve Gaines, Dean of the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management of the University of California, Santa Barbara; Masanori Miyahara, Chairman of Japanese Fishery Research and Education Institute; Beverly Wade, Chief of Belize Bureau of Fisheries; Alfredo Coro, Mayor of Del Carmen, the Philippines; professor Fernando Marquez from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Mexico; Jake Kritzer, Senior Director of the Chinese Fishery Program of Environmental Defense Fund; and Zhu Wenbin, Deputy Director of the Fishery Resources and Ecological Research Room of the Marine Fisheries Research Institute of Zhejiang.