Australian fisheries jurisdictions are assessed for the presence of formal resource allocation policies or statutes. The dataset likely contains a percentage metric indicating whether a fishery's management authority has established a legal or policy framework for dividing shared fishery resources among commercial, recreational, and Indigenous users. It is provided by the Australian Ocean Data Network and was last updated in April 2026.
Use Cases
- Compare policy adoption across different Australian fisheries jurisdictions based on the presence of formal allocation frameworks.
- Analyze trends in the formalization of fishery resource allocation processes.
- Assess the legal and policy infrastructure for managing shared fishery resources among user groups.
Strengths
- The dataset provides a specific metric (percentage) for a defined policy characteristic.
- It is sourced from an authoritative national ocean data network.
- The update date (2026-04-29) suggests recent maintenance.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- The description is brief, lacking details on methodology or specific jurisdictions covered.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-29 00:31:51.739316
- Geography
- Australia (Commonwealth, state, and territory fisheries jurisdictions)