Sess.1. What is a stock? -- Taking stock: or, who is taking what stock -- Stock structure across Northern Australia -- Sess.2. Stock assessment and research -- Stock assessment and harvest policy design for shared resources -- Accommodating uncertainty in assessing returns from research for Tasmanian orange roughy management -- Sess.3. Management and allocation of shared stocks -- Establishing a consultative mechanism or arrangement for managing shared stocks within the jurisdiction of contiguous states -- Biting the allocation bullet -- Making things work: recognizing the values and interests of stakeholders -- Sess.4. Summing up -- Prize winning essays -- Stock identification and fisheries management: the importance of using several methods in a stock identification study -- An appraisal of techniques commonly employed in stock structure assessment in Australian shellfish and finfish species -- Spatial autocorrelation: a new analytical tool for use in stock determination and fisheries management