Australian Fisheries Enforcement Zones Map for Timor and Arafura Seas

A 2019 map updated to reflect the 2018 Australia/Timor-Leste Maritime Boundaries Treaty, produced for the Australian Fisheries Management Authority. It is designed to assist enforcement of Australia's Maritime Boundaries and explain fishing zones to Indonesian fishermen in the Timor and Arafura Seas. The map was originally produced in Indonesian and this version is an English translation, published by the Australian Ocean Data Network.

Use Cases

• Visualizing maritime enforcement zones based on the described map boundaries.
• Communicating legal fishing areas to Indonesian fishermen based on the map's iconography.
• Supporting treaty compliance monitoring based on the 2018 Australia/Timor-Leste Maritime Boundaries Treaty.

Strengths

• Updated in 2019 to reflect a specific treaty from 2018.
• Produced for a specific authority, the Australian Fisheries Management Authority.
• Includes an English translation of an originally Indonesian-language resource.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Originally produced for the Australian Fisheries Management Authority.

Time Range

Updated in 2019.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 08:03:53.817691; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Timor and Arafura Seas, Australia's Maritime Boundaries.