On December 15th, 2016, Tang Jianye, the Director of the Ocean Fisheries Strategy Research Office of the National Oceanic Fisheries Engineering Technology Center, was invited to the National High-end Think Tank, Wuhan University International Law Research Institute, to give the teachers and students a title entitled "Northern Ocean Ocean Lecture on the progress and major debates in the negotiation of resource management agreements. The lecture was hosted by Professor Li Xueping from the Institute of International Law of Wuhan University. Shi Lei and many other teachers and students attended the lecture.

At the beginning of the lecture, Director Tang introduced the general geographical situation of the Arctic seas and the distribution of biological populations in these areas in conjunction with the international conventions related to the Arctic and the domestic laws of some countries. In addition, Director Tang analyzed in detail the impact of ecological changes on the distribution of biological populations, with Atlantic salmon migration as a typical example. Based on the valuable experience of many participating in the consultation meeting, Director Tang made the Oslo Declaration on the five coastal countries of the Arctic Ocean (Canada, the United States, Russia, Norway, Denmark) in 2015 (the Declaration on Preventing Unregulated Fishing in the Central Seas of the Arctic Ocean) The historical reasons and the process of multiple consultations were explained and analyzed. In December 2015, the above-mentioned countries held a meeting on the high seas high seas in the Arctic Ocean in Washington, DC, and invited China, the European Union, Iceland, South Korea, and Japan to participate in the promotion of their temporary “forbidden” measures to exclude other countries from entering the Arctic Ocean high seas fishery. However, temporary measures established in the open sea of ​​the Arctic Ocean to prevent “unregulated fishing” are not internationally binding and cannot be applied to third parties. The contents of the Arctic Ocean High Seas Biological Resources Management Agreement are also in the process of multi-country consultations, including: basic principles, interim measures, scientific research, member conferences, applicable areas, and distribution measures. Unresolved content includes: the legal nature of the document, the exploration of fisheries management, the trigger mechanism, and the decision-making mechanism of the conference. China has both rights and international obligations to the conservation and utilization of the Arctic Ocean's high seas biological resources. It is a stakeholder and is willing to work with relevant countries.

(Written by: Qiu Sixun)