Writing on the questions behind ocean policy.
Analysis on maritime security, fisheries, and the place where ocean governance meets food security.
An explainer on fisheries observers — the only independent account of what happens aboard the longline vessels setting hundreds of millions of hooks in the Pacific each year, and why so little of that activity is ever witnessed.
Inside the negotiating rooms where the Pacific's ocean food system is actually decided, and the fight to keep long-term sustainability, transparency, and accountability on the table.
Watching bad actors on the water is not the same as stopping them. Why "game-changing" surveillance technology cannot substitute for the legal authority and enforcement capacity to act on what a nation sees.
Most of the world's grain moves by sea, yet food security is rarely treated as a maritime issue. Written in the wake of the Ukraine war's shock to seaborne supply, the case for making it central to maritime strategy.
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