Australian Fisheries Enforcement Zones Map for Indonesian Fishermen

Australian Fisheries Enforcement Zones is a map produced for the Australian Fisheries Management Authority to assist enforcement of maritime boundaries. The Indonesian translation version explains fishing zones in the Timor and Arafura Seas to Indonesian fishermen. Updated in 2019 to reflect the 2018 Australia/Timor-Leste Maritime Boundaries Treaty.

Use Cases

• Enforcement of maritime boundaries based on the defined zones.
• Education of fishermen on legal fishing areas based on the map's explanatory icons.
• Analysis of maritime treaty impacts based on the 2019 update reflecting the 2018 treaty.

Strengths

• Updated in 2019 to reflect a 2018 treaty, suggesting recent legal relevance.
• Includes explanatory icons to clarify zones for a specific audience (Indonesian fishermen).

Limitations

• Data format is PDF/HTML, which may not be easily machine-readable for analysis.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 02:02:15.269742; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Timor and Arafura Seas, Australia's maritime boundaries.