Fish Habitat Protection Areas in Western Australia

Western Australia's polygon coverage of Fish Habitat Protection Areas declared under the Fish Resource Management Act. The dataset is maintained by the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial boundaries of Protection Areas to assess habitat coverage and connectivity.
• Integrate polygon data with other fisheries datasets to study impacts on Fishing zones.
• Use the declared area boundaries for compliance monitoring and enforcement of habitat Protection regulations.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple standard geospatial formats including SHP, GEOJSON, and GEOPACKAGE.
• Maintained by the authoritative state department (Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development).
• Updated recently, with a last update timestamp of 2026 03 24.

Limitations

• No row or feature count is provided, making the dataset's scale unknown.
• Sample data is unavailable, preventing preview of attribute structure or completeness.
• The description lacks details on specific attributes (columns) contained within the spatial files.

Provenance

Source

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Geographic Information Services.

Collection Method

Shapefile created from textual descriptions in official Notices.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026 03 24.

Geography

Western Australia.