Margaret Young outlines how efforts to avert the global fisheries crisis necessitate a new understanding of international law.

Part I. Trading Fish, Saving Fish: 1. Introduction; 2. Relevant laws and institutions: an overview; Part II. Selected Case-Studies: 3. The negotiation of WTO rules on fisheries subsidies; 4. The restriction of trade in endangered marine species; 5. Adjudicating a fisheries import ban at the WTO; Part III. Towards Regime Interaction: 6. From fragmentation to regime interaction; 7. A legal framework for regime interaction; 8. Implications for international law.

Dr Margaret Young is an Associate Professor at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia. She was the inaugural Research Fellow in Public International Law at Pembroke College and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, from 2006 to 2008.