UTSPEAKS RIGHT VS RIGHTEOUS PART 1 OF 4

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?

Listen to Kate Barclay, one of the few social scientists in Australia researching tuna fisheries in the Asia Pacific region, share her views on this issue.

This public lecture mapped 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 also questioned the motives of governments and conservationists in these disputes and considered new ways forward, where sustainable, win-win solutions may be found and marine life can be better protected.

Kate Barclay

Kate is a senior lecturer in the Bachelor International Studies and the bachelor of Global Studies programs at UTS.

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.

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