Queensland Commercial Fishing Licenses, Effort, and Harvest on a 30-Minute Grid, 2013

DAFF and SELTMP compiled this 2013 dataset on Queensland's commercial harvest, line, net, pot, and trawl fisheries. It contains 20 geospatial layers for active licenses, effort days, harvest weight, and gross value of product (GVP) aggregated on a 30-minute grid. The data originates from mandatory daily logbooks completed by commercial fishers and is managed by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.

Use Cases

• Mapping fishing effort intensity based on reported effort days aggregated on a 30-minute grid.
• Analyzing the spatial distribution of harvest weight and economic value (GVP) for different fishery types.
• Assessing the footprint of licensed commercial fishing operations for marine spatial planning.
• Correlating fishing activity with environmental or conservation zones using the geospatial grid data.

Strengths

• Contains 20 distinct data layers covering licenses, effort, harvest, and economic value.
• Spatial data is provided on a detailed 30-minute grid for areas with more than 5 licensed operators.
• Data is derived from mandatory daily logbooks, which suggests a systematic collection method.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Metadata is noted as not authoritative and was developed for the eAtlas project.

Provenance

Source

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF), SELTMP team.

Collection Method

Compiled from mandatory daily logbooks submitted by commercial fishers.

Time Range

2013

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-10 19:50:13.426443; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Queensland, Australia.