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International Fisheries Development Lab
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The lab studies the relationship between the sea and people, focusing on fisheries policy and economics.
AboutAbout the lab
Harmony between aquatic environments and human society.
The International Fisheries Development Lab conducts wide-ranging research centered on fisheries policy and fisheries economics.
Aiming to achieve harmony between aquatic environments and human society, the lab takes on research from basic to applied, regardless of field.
Students can take a cross-disciplinary approach that is not bound by a single area of specialization, and can conduct joint research with local researchers in overseas fieldwork sites.
The lab's vision is to train people who can work on the international stage, and to be an active and open lab.
Key terms
- Fishing rights
- The right to engage in fishing in a designated sea area. They form the foundation of resource management in each region.
- Individual transferable quota (ITQ) system
- A system that allocates the permitted catch to each fisher and allows these quotas to be bought and sold.
- Resource management
- Setting and enforcing limits on the amount and methods of catch so that fish and other resources are not overharvested and depleted.
NewsLab news
A doctoral student's paper has been published
A master's student won the Student Excellent Poster Presentation Award at the Spring Meeting of the Japanese Society of Fisheries Science
A master's student won the Best Speed Talk Award at the Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies
Associate Professor Sakai won the Encouragement Award of the Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies fisheries policy and fisheries economics, aiming to achieve harmony between aquatic environments and human society. It takes on research from basic to applied, regardless of field, from the perspectives of both natural science and social science.
*Illustrative imageEvaluating Resource Management Based on Fishing Rights
The lab evaluates resource management systems based on fishing rights from an international perspective.
*Illustrative imageResearch on Transferable Catch Quota Systems
The lab studies the application of individual transferable quota (ITQ) systems, in which fishers can buy and sell their permitted catch quotas among themselves.
MembersFaculty
The members of the International Fisheries Development Lab consist of faculty, researchers, staff, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and research students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorYutaro SakaiPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “DFC 2234 Colorful fishing boats bob in a calm harbor under a cloudy sky their flags and tarps fluttering in the breeze” PattayaPatrol / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Evaluating Resource Management Based on Fishing Rights: “Fishing boats in the port of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, April 2023” Calistemon / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Research on Transferable Catch Quota Systems: “A bucket of fish - by Mats Hagwall” Mats Hagwall / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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