Australian Fisheries Enforcement Zones Map for Timor and Arafura Seas

Geoscience Australia produced this map for the Australian Fisheries Management Authority to assist enforcement of maritime boundaries. Updated in 2019 to reflect the 2018 Australia/Timor-Leste Maritime Boundaries Treaty, it uses icons to explain fishing zones to Indonesian fishermen. The map is not for public release by Geoscience Australia but through DEH and AFMA.

Use Cases

• Visualizing maritime enforcement zones based on the described map boundaries.
• Educating fishermen about legal fishing areas based on the described icon system.
• Supporting international fisheries treaty compliance based on the 2018 boundary update.

Strengths

• Updated in 2019 to reflect a specific treaty (the 2018 Australia/Timor-Leste Maritime Boundaries Treaty).
• Originally produced in Indonesian and translated to English, suggesting multilingual utility.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Time Range

Updated in 2019.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 03:54:56.362876; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Timor and Arafura Seas, Australia's maritime boundaries.