IMAS Metadata Catalogue
IND425 - Healthcheck: Local ownership levels
Metric: Percentage of fishing units within the fishery held by Australian entities.
Measures the proportion of fishing licences, quota, or other fishing rights owned by Australian individuals or organisations.
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Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 2026-07-03T00:00:00
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
- Credit
- The continuation of Australian Fisheries Healthcheck has been supported by the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) on behalf of the Australian Government (Project 2023-024) and the DAFF Ag Traceability Uplift – Responsible fisheries – Activating a comprehensive Ecological, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting data system to uplift sustainability traceability. The project ran from 2023-2026.
- Status
- On going
- Topic category
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- Economy
- Society
- Farming
- Environment
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2025-01-01
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Quarterly
- Keywords (Theme)
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- Social
- Keywords (Sub-Topic Category)
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- Wider community
- Global Change Master Directory Earth Science Keywords, Version 8.5
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License Text
- Other constraints
- Cite data as: Hobday, A. & Ogier, E. (2025) Healthcheck Sustainability Indicator Reporting for Australian Fisheries. CSIRO. Data accessed from https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/570c389c-6c00-4edf-8aed-8c49a5b4547d on [access date]
- Other constraints
- Please also cite the associated project report: Hobday, A., Ogier, E., Thomas, L., Spanou, E., Walsh, P., Fleming, A., Jumppanen, P., Hartog, J., Flukes, E., Bustamante, R., Deng, R., Rochester, W., Kenyon, R. (2026) Healthcheck3 - Activating a comprehensive ESG reporting data system to uplift sustainability traceability. Prepared for the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC project 2023/024) and Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Australian Government (National Agricultural Traceability Grants Program (Grant ID 4-IMHI4L3). CSIRO, Hobart, Australia.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- CSV
- OnLine resource
- Data for IND425 - Local ownership levels
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Step 1: Search for any type of online data about fishing licenses/units in the fishery, including fishing entitlement or quota unit, as reported by any of the following: - Fishery management agency - Government licensing entity - Online broker business. Alternatively, request the data directly from the relevant management agency. If data about the entities and fishing licence holdings are not publicly available and comprehensive and cannot be obtained by other means, report "Data not found" and the year of data collection for the framework. Step 2: Determine: - The total number of licences/units available in the fishery for the most recent available year. - The total number of entities holding fishing licences/units and the number of licences/units each entity holds. Step 3: For each license-holding entity, determine the number of licenses/units held by non-Australian-based entities. This is undertaken by searching the ABN lookup database - https://abr.business.gov.au/ - using the entity name and ABN. If the entity is not identified in the search at all, or as not having an Australian business address, then the entity is classified as 'Non-Australian'. Step 4: Calculate the proportion of total fishing licence/unit holdings held by Australian entities. Step 5: Report the percentage of fishing units held by Australian entities and the data’s year of provenance and/or publication where available. Note: Due to limited public data availability, direct data requests are likely to be required for most fisheries. In this version of Healthcheck, this indicator output will be "Data not found" for most fisheries.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- urn:uuid/6199c762-6bca-4390-a996-0c5e9f230a70
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Name
- Healthcheck Indicator record
- Metadata linkage
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https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/6199c762-6bca-4390-a996-0c5e9f230a70
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-08-10T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-07-03T16:13:21
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
Overviews
Fisheries Healthcheck logo
Spatial extent
Provided by
Associated resources
Not available