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Overview  People will travel outlandish distances for a touristic experience that is genuine, meaningful, reciprocal and fulfilling. In Basque Country, the connection between fisheries and food tourism is only the distance between the communities of origin and the end product.  Researcher What my Basque Country research has shown is that joint management of protected area resources can be sustainable and ethical when the policy and industrial conditions allow for rights-based, multiple economies to flourish in strongly rooted cultural traditions.” Emma’s journey to higher education has been something of a journey in itself. I worked at Woolworths Petrol in Wynyard for two years before I secured a scholarship to begin my PhD at the Cradle Coast campus. That job allowed me see the fabric of a community and really think about how I could create something in my PhD that paid tribute to so many hard-working Tasmanians. Emma has also worked as an archaeologist, authored the book Tale of a Whale, and continues to dabble as a keen opinion-piece writer for Tasmanian newspapers.   For now though, she has immersed herself in all the academia Spain’s northern Basque region has to offer. “I’ve spent time in the township of Oñati at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law. Now I’m now based in the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve studying at AZTI Tecnalia, the premier Western Europe fisheries research institute.