IMAS Metadata Catalogue
IND313 - Healthcheck: Formal spatial allocation
Metric: Percentage of waters zoned explicitly for commercial fishing in the fishery jurisdiction (state/territory or Commonwealth) of operation.
Measures the proportion of jurisdictional waters that are designated for commercial fishing activities.
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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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- Governance
- Keywords (Sub-Topic Category)
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- Legal and institutional arrangements
- Global Change Master Directory Earth Science Keywords, Version 8.5
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png
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 IND313 - Formal spatial allocation
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Step 1: Determine the jurisdiction (state/territory/commonwealth) in which the fishery operates. From this, determine the main state or territory from which the fishery operates and the total area of state/territory waters. Step 2: Determine whether there are any zoning schemes in the fishery's jurisdiction that explicitly delineate areas where commercial fishing is permitted and follow the relevant path from the options below: - If no zoning schemes exist, report "Data not found" and the year of data collection for the framework. - If zoning schemes exist and no areas explicitly permit fishing, report "0%" and the year of data provenance. The assumption in this case is that fishing is permitted because it hasn't been excluded (i.e. via MPA protection) rather than there being formal permission to fish in explicit zones. - If zoning schemes exist and the areas of zones where fishing is permitted are not provided, report "Zoning present, area size unknown" and the year of data provenance. - If zoning schemes exist and the areas of zones where fishing is permitted are provided, sum the areas to obtain the total size of jurisdictional waters allocated to commercial fishing. Check for any spatial overlap of these zones to avoid double counting. Report the percentage of the total area of jurisdictional waters allocated to commercial fishing and the year of provenance and/or publication of the zoning data used in the calculation where available. Note: Due to the Australian marine spatial allocation practices (i.e. few to no zones explicitly permit commercial fishing), most jurisdictions will have a result of 0%.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- urn:uuid/83c38659-c96a-4f0b-b4b1-259e11280a6d
- 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/83c38659-c96a-4f0b-b4b1-259e11280a6d
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
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Associated resources
Not available