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IND141 - Healthcheck: Use of macro-plastics

Metric: Annual amount of macro-plastic use (kg).


Measures the total weight of large plastic materials used by the fishery each year, such as nets, ropes, packaging, and other equipment. This indicator helps track the fishery’s reliance on plastic products.

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2026-07-03T00:00:00

Principal investigator

CSIRO Environment - Hobday, Alistair
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Principal investigator

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies - Ogier, Emily
University of Tasmania
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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

Processor

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - Data Officer
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Topic category
  • Economy
  • Society
  • Farming
  • Environment

Extent



Temporal extent

Time period
2025-01-01
Maintenance and update frequency
Quarterly
Keywords (Theme)
  • Ecological
Keywords (Sub-Topic Category)
  • Carbon and waste
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  • FISHERIES

Resource constraints

Linkage
http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png

License Graphic

Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License


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Website
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
  • CSV

OnLine resource
Data for IND141 - Use of macro-plastics

Resource lineage

Statement
Step 1: Identify data sources that report on amount of macroplastics used in the fishery. Examples of macroplastic use: - Packaging - Synthetic textiles (tarps, sails) - Fishing gear (lines, nets, traps, trawls) If no data are available for the fishery, report "Data not found" and the year of data collection for the framework. Step 2: Report on the weight of macroplastics used in kg for the most recent available year and the data’s year of provenance and/or publication where available.
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/66ad6504-b370-477c-9add-9a0d0a88e351

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distributor

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies - IMAS Data Manager
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Parent metadata
  • Healthcheck Sustainability Indicator Reporting for Australian Fisheries

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Name
Healthcheck Indicator record
Metadata linkage
https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/66ad6504-b370-477c-9add-9a0d0a88e351

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

Keywords

Ecological
Global Change Master Directory Earth Science Keywords, Version 8.5
FISHERIES

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