Australian Fisheries Enforcement Zones Map for Indonesian Fishermen

A 2019 map updated to reflect the 2018 Australia/Timor-Leste Maritime Boundaries Treaty, produced for the Australian Fisheries Management Authority. It assists in enforcing Australia's maritime boundaries in the Timor and Arafura Seas. The dataset is an Indonesian translation and is 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 translated map content.
• Analyzing changes in maritime boundaries based on the 2018 treaty update mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Updated in 2019 to incorporate a specific legal change: the 2018 Australia/Timor-Leste Maritime Boundaries Treaty.
• Includes an Indonesian translation, targeting a specific linguistic audience.

Limitations

• Data format is PDF/HTML, limiting machine-readability and programmatic 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

Time Range

Reflects boundaries as of 2019.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 10:14:35.895245; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Timor and Arafura Seas, Australia's maritime boundaries.