FAD's Australia: Seafood Futures Maps for Marine Spatial Planning

A set of jurisdictional maps produced as inputs to the Futures of Seafood study's State of Play assessment. The maps were commissioned by the Blue Economy CRC and created by CSIRO experts using data supplied by Australian state and territory governments. The data is pending final review before publication on the Futures of Seafood website.

Use Cases

• Marine spatial planning based on jurisdictional seafood production data mentioned in the description
• Assessing the state of play for Australia's seafood industry based on the commissioned study outputs
• Informing sustainable blue economy policy based on expert-collated map data

Strengths

• Commissioned by the Blue Economy CRC, a collaborative research center.
• Data collation and map production led by experts from CSIRO, a national science agency.
• Involves engagement with multiple Australian jurisdictional governments.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data freshness should be verified as the last metadata update is dated 2026-07-16.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network (host), Blue Economy CRC (commissioner), CSIRO (producer), Australian jurisdictional governments (data suppliers).

Collection Method

Expert collation of supplied government data to produce map sets.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-16 02:52:29.616158; freshness should be verified

Geography

Australia (jurisdictional coverage implied)