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Yoshitaka Ota is director (policy) of the Nippon Foundation-University of British Columbia Nereus Program. He is a senior research associate at the University of British Columbia. His main research area is the anthropology of fishing, assessing the current global outlook of Indigenous fishing and coastal food security. He also works on ocean governance and policy, marine spatial planning and knowledge communication.
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