This product is the Recreational Fishing Regions of Western Australia dataset. This datatset outlines recreational fishing regions used for monitoring, assessments and management of Western Australia’s recreational fisheries and aquatic resources in accordance with ecosystem-based fisheries management and Western Australia Fisheries Resource Harvest Strategies.

Polygon coverage containing all marine locations of aquaculture licenses including application sites.

This spatial boundary supports the marine bioregional boundaries as described in the State of the Fisheries Reports, that follows those of the Interim Marine and Coastal Regionalisation for Australia report (IMCRA Technical Group) except for the inclusion of the Gascoyne coast as a separate region.

Recognised Biosecurity Group (RBG) areas in Western Australia. RBGs are community based groups formally recognised under the Biosecurity and Agriculture Management Act 2007 (BAM Act). They each operate within a prescribed area.

Polygon coverage of the Fish Habitat Protection Areas in Western Australia declared under section 115 of the Fish Resource Management Act. Shapefile created from textual descriptions of fish and fish habitat protection areas in Notices. Formally (DOF-002)

This data set contains the current CEO Notices and Determinations (CEO) boundaries for WA fisheries. Each feature relates to the management boundary of a specific type of fish / fishery / area or activity. These boundaries comprise one component of all fisheries related boundaries prescribed by WA fisheries legislation. The full list of WA fisheries boundaries as documented in the annual ‘Status Reports of the Fisheries and Aquatic Resources’ is comprised of 6 different categories that have been grouped together as the Fisheries Guide. Fisheries Guide – CEO Notices and Determinations Fisheries Guide – Consolidated Management Plans Fisheries Guide – Consolidated Notices and Orders Fisheries Guide – Instrument of Exemption Fisheries Guide – Licence Conditions Fisheries Guide – Open Access When searching for particular information in relation to a type of fish / a fishery / an area or activity, then it is important that you refer to all of the above Fisheries Guide categories, as looking in just one category alone may not return all of the relevant boundaries.

This data contains spatial and contextual information about Australian Marine Parks proclaimed under the Commonwealth Government's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, which are managed by Parks Australia, with the addition of Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve, which is managed by the Australian Antarctic Division. The Australian Marine Parks include the North, North-west, South-west, South-east and Temperate East Networks, the Coral Sea Marine Park, and the Indian Ocean Territories Marine Parks. These parks were established in Commonwealth waters consistent with the Australian Government’s commitment to develop a National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas.More information can be found at:Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve – Australian Antarctic ProgramThis dataset does not include marine protected areas in other Australian jurisdictions (e.g. the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, State/Territory marine parks), or terrestrial protected areas with marine components (e.g. Pulu Keeling National Park). More information can be found at:Australian Marine Parks | Parks AustraliaMore information about the zoning and rules for activities for each of the networks can be found here:Coral Sea: Coral Sea Marine Park | Australian Marine Parks | Parks AustraliaIndian Ocean Territories: Indian Ocean Territories Marine Parks | Australian Marine Parks | Parks AustraliaNorth network: North Marine Parks Network | Australian Marine Parks | Parks AustraliaNorth-west network: North-west Marine Parks Network | Australian Marine Parks | Parks AustraliaSouth-east network: South-east Marine Parks Network | Australian Marine Parks | Parks AustraliaSouth-west network: South-west Marine Parks Network | Australian Marine Parks | Parks AustraliaTemperate East: Temperate East Marine Parks Network | Australian Marine Parks | Parks AustraliaSince this dataset was originally published in 2018 there have been the following updates:1. A technical amendment was made on the basis of user feedback (April 30th 2019). Macquarie Island was the only marine park affected by this amendment. The area calculation for Macquarie Island Marine Park was previously under reported by 483km2. This will have affected statistical analyses that used the calculated area (KM2) as an input. This amendment is superseded by item 4 below.2. A zoning boundary error identified at West Island in Ashmore Reef Marine Park was corrected (March 2022).3. Two new Australian Marine Parks were added to this dataset in March 2022; Christmas Island Marine Park and Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Park.4. The addition of the expanded Macquarie Island Marine Park which came into effect on 1 July 2023, replacing the boundaries of the original marine park proclaimed in 1999.5. The expanded Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve took effect on 24 January 2025. 6. The South-east Marine Parks zoning updates under the new management plan came into effect on 13 February 2025.

A dataset that contains Regional Development Commission (RDC) region boundaries in Western Australia. These regions were established to support the Regional Development Commissions Act 1993, which defined their extents and established Regional Development Commissions to promote their economic development.

Hydrological zones are a broad spatial framework grouping areas with similar hydrology. They are used to report on dryland salinity and acidification of inland waterways in the ‘Report card on sustainable natural resource use in agriculture – status and trend in the agricultural areas of the south-west of Western Australia (2013)’. Zone boundaries are derived from hydrological attributes associated with the best available soil-landscape mapping, Version 5.01.