Enmeshed: Australia and Southeast Asia’s fisheries

Southeast Asia’s oceans are fast running out of fish, putting the livelihoods of up to 100 million people at risk, leading to more illegal incursions into Australia’s northern fisheries and putting the future of shared stocks between Australia and Southeast Asia at grave risk. A new Lowy Institute Paper entitled ‘Enmeshed: Australia and Southeast Asia’s Fisheries’ by Dr Meryl J. Williams looks at the sources of this depletion and what can be done regionally to address it before it becomes too late.Media in Australia and Southeast Asia have responded to Meryl’s paper with the original Reuters story being picked up in the Philippines and Thailand (and Pakistan) while Singapore’s Straits Times also ran a story on the paper.

See the Reuters story here. Book can be download from the Lowy Institute.