Shingo Hamada is an associate professor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Osaka Shoin Women’s University, and a research associate in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington. His research revolves around the environmental history and cultural politics of seafood in coastal communities, with a special focus on fermented seafood and commoners’ fish such as herring. Using ethnographic research methods and the approaches in the anthropology of science, his dissertation research investigated how a collaborative stock enhancement program for regional herring stocks develop in Japan while managerial responsibility and coastal stewardship are blurred in an assemblage of human and nonhuman actors. While he works with other Ocean Nexus researchers for documenting and analyzing policies for extreme events (2021 Red Tide in Hokkaido, Japan), he will start his Fulbright Scholar Fellowship, in the affiliation with the University of Alaska Southeast, to study the “Spawn-on-Kelp” fishery and ecosystem-based seaweed aquaculture in Southeast Alaska. His publication includes “Gone with the Herring: Ainu Geographic Names and a Multiethnic History of Coastal Hokkaido” in Canadian Journal of Native Studies and Seafood: from Ocean to the Plate (co-authored with Richard Wilk), and several English and Japanese articles on small-scale shrimp fishery, oyster farming, and merroir (taste of sea) in Northern Japan.