ABARES Fishery Status Reports Map Data: User guide 2025

The annual ABARES Fishery Status Reports are an independent assessment of the biological status of commercial fish stocks and the economic status of fisheries managed, or jointly managed, by the Australian Government (Commonwealth fisheries). ABARES Annual Fishery Status Reports Map Data are digital representations of the two thematic components of the maps in the ABARES Fishery Status Reports: relative fishing intensity and the maximum area of waters fished. Relative fishing intensity shows areas where five or more fishing vessels operated and the relative effort expended or the catch. Maximum area fished shows the maximum area where fishing occurred at a resolution of one degree (approximately 111 x 111 km). The maps were compiled from logbook data supplied by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA). Data are supplied for all Australian Government-managed (Commonwealth) fisheries where there has been activity reported in at least one year since 2010. The number of years for which data are supplied varies from year to year depending on the amount of activity in the fishery. The data are supplied as feature classes in Esri file geodatabases.