IND541: Formal Indigenous Agreements in Australian Marine Fishing Areas

IND541 tracks the presence or absence of formal agreements like TUMRAs and co-management plans for defined fishing areas. The metric indicates whether arrangements such as Sea Country IPAs are in place for marine spatial governance. This dataset is provided by the Australian Ocean Data Network and was last updated on 2026-07-10.

Use Cases

• Mapping the distribution of formal Indigenous agreements based on the presence/absence metric.
• Analyzing trends in marine spatial governance based on the types of agreements in place.
• Assessing the coverage of Sea Country Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs) within defined fishing zones.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific and policy-relevant metric: presence/absence of formal agreements.
• Data is provided by the authoritative Australian Ocean Data Network.
• Last update timestamp is precisely recorded as 2026-07-10 00:58:00.368578.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-10 00:58:00.368578; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia (marine fishing areas)