IND543: Proportion of Australian Fishing Waters Under IUCN Protection

IND543 - Healthcheck: Extent of potential fishing area under protection is a metric from the Australian Ocean Data Network. It measures the proportion of jurisdictional waters where a fishery operates that are under IUCN protection categories. The dataset was last updated on 2026-07-22.

Use Cases

• Assess marine conservation policy effectiveness based on the proportion of protected waters.
• Model fishery sustainability by correlating protection levels with fishing zones.
• Support marine spatial planning decisions based on IUCN protection category coverage.

Strengths

• Provides a specific metric for marine protection coverage.
• Data is sourced from the authoritative Australian Ocean Data Network.
• Last update timestamp is precisely recorded as 2026-07-22 03:02:37.582267.

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 03:02:37.582267; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australian jurisdictional waters (state/territory or Commonwealth).