Licensing and quota management

The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) grants Fishing Permits, Fish Receiver Permits, Scientific Permits, Statutory Fishing Rights and High Seas Fishing Permits for Commonwealth fisheries (excluding Torres Strait), processes transactions in relation to these concessions and maintains registers of individual transferable quota to give effect to fisheries management arrangements. AFMA also collects fisheries management levies from fishers on behalf of the Commonwealth.

AFMA's costs for providing licensing and quota management services are recovered through application fees and levies collected from fishers.

Various application forms, including permits, transferring quotas and research forms, are available in Adobe PDF format for downloading and printing.

Page last updated 21 July, 2005