Grid Blocks - 5 NM (DPIRD-057) contains spatial boundaries for Western Australian waters, divided into 5-minute latitude/longitude blocks for recording fishing catch and effort. The dataset is maintained by the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development's Geographic Information Services and was last updated in March 2026.
Use Cases
- Spatially join fishing catch and effort records to the 5 nautical mile grid boundaries for research and reporting.
- Analyze the distribution of fishing activity across the defined 5-minute latitude/longitude blocks in Western Australia.
- Use the grid boundaries as a spatial framework for aggregating and mapping fisheries data.
Strengths
- Data is provided in multiple standard geospatial formats including GeoJSON, SHP, and Geopackage.
- Published under a permissive CC-BY license.
- Maintained by a government department (DPIRD) for official fisheries reporting.
Limitations
- No row or column count is provided, making the dataset's scale and attribute structure unknown.
- The description lacks specifics on the data attributes (columns) contained within the spatial features.
Provenance
- Source
- Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Geographic Information Services.
- Collection Method
- Created for the recording of fishing catch and effort for research and reporting purposes.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated March 2026.
- Geography
- Western Australian waters.