Australian Fisheries Enforcement Zones in the Timor and Arafura Seas

Australian Fisheries Management Authority enforcement zones, reflecting maritime boundaries updated per the 2018 Australia/Timor-Leste treaty. This map, produced by Geoscience Australia, includes coordinate lists and boundary explanations for the Timor and Arafura Seas. The data was updated in 2019 and is provided in PDF and HTML formats.

Use Cases

• Visualize maritime enforcement zones based on the described coordinate lists.
• Analyze changes in maritime boundaries based on the 2018 treaty update mentioned in the description.
• Support fisheries management enforcement operations based on the defined maritime zones.
• Reference treaty-defined boundaries for legal or diplomatic analysis.

Strengths

• Explicitly updated in 2019 to reflect a 2018 international treaty.
• Produced for and by authoritative government bodies (AFMA, Geoscience Australia).
• Includes explanatory text alongside coordinate data.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data format is PDF/HTML, which may require extraction for computational analysis.
• Row count and specific data scale are unknown.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Originally produced in Indonesian and translated to English for the Australian Fisheries Management Authority.

Time Range

Updated in 2019.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 17:48:52.583654; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia, specifically the Timor and Arafura Seas.