This policy brief focuses on fisheries and provides three perspectives: one, an overview of the underlying causes of overfishing; two, a discussion on the recent efforts of Australia to put its Commonwealth fisheries on a sustainable management path; and three, the challenges faced by our Pacific neighbours in managing valuable and migratory tuna fisheries.

The contents are:

Too few fish and too many boats by R. Quentin Grafton

Getting things right: structural adjustment in Australia’s Commonwealth fisheries by Tom Kompas

Ensuring sustainable fisheries in the Pacific by Kate Barclay