IMAS Metadata Catalogue
IND121 - Healthcheck: Discards (total, all species)
Metric: Annual weight of all discarded and/or dead species (kg).
Measures the total weight of all fish and other marine species that are caught but returned to the water rather than kept. This indicator provides an overall measure of fishery discarding.
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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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- Ecological
- Keywords (Sub-Topic Category)
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- Non-retained species
- 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 IND121 - Discards (total, all species)
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Step 1: Search for the fishery's discard weights. If no discard data are available, report "Data not found" and the year of data collection for the framework. Step 2: Extract the fishery's total discard weight for the most recent available year. If discard weights are reported by species, sum the discard weights to obtain the total for the fishery. Step 3: Report the most recent annual total discard weight for the fishery and the data's year of provenance and/or publication where available.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- urn:uuid/bfa5f253-5ac0-4bc3-8094-0ab428271c55
- 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/bfa5f253-5ac0-4bc3-8094-0ab428271c55
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