IND541: Formal Indigenous Agreements in Australian Marine Governance

Australian Ocean Data Network provides a metric on the presence or absence of formal agreements, such as co-management plans or Sea Country agreements, for defined fishing areas. The dataset indicates whether arrangements like TUMRAs or Indigenous Protected Areas are in place. It was last updated on 2026-07-22.

Use Cases

• Assessing the extent of Indigenous recognition in marine governance based on the presence/absence of formal agreements.
• Mapping the spatial distribution of co-management plans and Sea Country agreements.
• Analyzing the relationship between formal agreements and fisheries management outcomes.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific and policy-relevant metric: presence/absence of formal agreements.
• Sourced from the authoritative Australian Ocean Data Network.
• Last update timestamp (2026-07-22 03:08:55.673395) is provided.

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 2026-07-22 03:08:55.673395; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia (implied from platform and topic)