By Walker Mills

Aaron Delano-Johnson joins the program to discuss how to apply lessons from counternarcotics operations to combating IUU fishing. Aaron is a Captain in the U.S. Coast Guard.

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Links

1. “Cocaine Codfish: How the War on Drugs Can Inform the Fight Against Illegal Fishing,” by Aaron Delano-Johnson, War on the Rocks, October 16, 2023.

2. “A Plan to Push Back Against China’s Fishing Practices,” by Aaron Delano-Johnson and Chris Bernotavicus, War on the Rocks, December 2, 2022. 

3. Sea Control 219: USCG Commandant Admiral Karl Schultz, by Walker Mills, CIMSEC, December 27, 2020. 

4. Sea Control 256: Reporting From the Sea With Ian Urbina, by Walker Mills, CIMSEC, June 6, 2021. 

5. The Outlaw Ocean Project.

6. “Memorandum on Combating Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and Associated Labor Abuses,” The White House, June 27, 2022. 

7. “Future IUU Fishing Trends in a Warming World: A global Horizon Scan,” by Lauren Young, Cathy Haenlein and Grace Evans, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), March 1, 2023.

8. “Move the IUU Fight Up the Food Chain,” by Conor Sullivan, USNI Proceedings, November 2023.

Walker Mills is Co-Host of the Sea Control podcast and a Senior Editor for CIMSEC. Contact the podcast team at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.

This episode was edited and produced by Addison Pellerano.

By Anna McNiel

Dr. John Sherwood joins the program to discuss his latest book, A Global Force for Good: Sea Services Humanitarian Operations in the Twenty-First Century, about the sea services’ response to various humanitarian operations in the 21st century. John has served as a historian at Naval History and Heritage Command since 1997.

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Links

This episode was edited and produced by Jonathan Selling.

By Nathan Miller

Ray Powell joins the program to discuss his recent work “Game Changer: The Philippines’ Assertive Transparency Campaign: How the Philippines Rewrote the Counter Gray Zone Playbook in 2023.”

Ray Powell is the Founder and Director of SeaLight, a maritime transparency project of the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford University, California. Powell served 35 years in the U.S. Air Force, including posts in the Philippines, Japan, Germany, and Qatar, as well as combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He served as the U.S. Air Attaché to Vietnam and the U.S. Defense Attaché to Australia.

Download Sea Control 493 – “Assertive Transparency” in the Gray Zone with Ray Powell

Links

1. “Game Changer: The Philippines’ Assertive Transparency Campaign: How the Philippines Rewrote the Counter Gray Zone Playbook in 2023,” by Col. Raymond Powell US Air Force (Ret.) and Benjamin Goirigolzarri Ph. D., Stratbase ADRi, January 12, 2024.

2. Sea Control 456 – China’s Maritime Gray Zone Tactics and SeaLight with Ray Powell and Gaute Friis, by Jared Samuelson, Sea Control Podcast, August, 24, 2023

Nathan Miller is a Co-Host of the Sea Control podcast, and edited and produced this episode. Contact the Sea Control team at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.

By Jared Samuelson

In this episode, Ebunoluwa George Ojo-Ami joins us to discuss how the states bordering the Gulf of Guinea are approaching their many maritime security challenges. Ebunoluwa is a graduate of the Maritime Academy of Nigeria. He focuses on security in West Africa, particularly the Gulf of Guinea.

Download Sea Control 492 – Challenges in the Gulf of Guinea with Ebunoluwa Ojo-Ami

Links

1. “Navigating security challenges in West Africa,” by Ebunoluwa George Ojo-Ami, International Security Journal, August 9, 2023. 

Jared Samuelson is Co-Host and Executive Producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact him at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.

This episode was edited and produced by Andrew Frame.