Dr. Zhou Fang has been an associate professor at Shanghai Ocean University since 2022. Before that, he was a lecturer for four years at this university. He completed his PhD studies majoring in Fishery Resources Science, at Shanghai Ocean University, College of Ocean Science from 2013 to 2016. From 2014 to 2015, he went to the University of Maine as an exchange visiting scholar. In addition, he also serves as the Deputy Head of the Chinese Scientists Delegation under the South Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA) (since 2018), a member of the Huang Danian style teaching team at national universities—the International Compliance Team for Ocean Fisheries (2017), and a key member of the Squid Fishing Technology Group of the China Ocean Fisheries Association. His main research direction is marine fishery biology and ecology.