Ron is a Deputy-Director of the Centre Maritime Policy at the University of Wollongong and is currently working with Professor Martin Tsamenyi on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing in Indonesia and Philippines. He is also supervising a number of PhD students in areas of coastal and maritime research. He is member of the NSW Scientific Committee dealing with threatened fish species and Chairperson of the Wollongong Estuary Management Committee.
Commercial fishing vessels in Manila harbour, Philippines.
Kearney, R. E., N. L. Andrew, and R. J. West. 1996. Some issues in the management of Australia’s marine and coastal fisheries resources. Ocean and Coastal Management 33:133-146.
Tsamenyi, M. and R.J. West. 2000. The identification of researchable options for the development of policy and management frameworks to combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing activities in Indonesian and Philippine waters. Final Report on ACIAR Project No. FIS/2000/163, Australia.
