05
Mar
2018
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) has been advised via their airtime provider that Inmarsat will be commencing a transition of satellite C services from their I-3 constellation (which is nearing end of life) to the newer I-4...
28
Feb
2018
Note: The consultation period has been extended and will close on Monday 9 April, 2018.
Joint media release from the Australian Fisheries Management Authority and the NSW Department of Primary Industries
Fishers are being encouraged to have their say...
27
Feb
2018
Media release from the Australian Fisheries Management Authority and the Australian Border Force
Officers from the Australian Border Force (ABF), Australian Defence Force (ADF) and the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) have carried out...
26
Feb
2018
Last month, fisheries officers from the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) and Primary Industry & Regions South Australia (PIRSA), undertook a joint patrol to inspect Commonwealth fishing operators involved in the harvest and farming...
25
Feb
2018
Joint media release from the Australian Fisheries Management Authority and the Australian Border Force
An Indonesian fishing vessel has been apprehended approximately 390 nautical miles off the Western Australian coast by Maritime Border Command (MBC...
01
Feb
2018
Assistant Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources media release
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority has completed a joint public information campaign with the Vietnamese Ministry for Agriculture and Rural Development and the Vietnamese...
24
Jan
2018
Rules and regulations are an important part of fisheries management as they protect Australia’s fishery resources for current and future generations, and help to ensure the sustainability of the broader marine environment.
The Australian Fisheries...
22
Jan
2018
The Northern Prawn Fishery (NPF) has been re-certified by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) for a further five years, recognising the NPF as having global best-practice ecologically sustainable fisheries management.
The MSC certification is...
22
Dec
2017
The master of an Indonesian illegal fishing vessel today pleaded guilty and was convicted in the Darwin Magistrates Court after being caught illegally fishing in Australian waters in October 2017.
The master, a previous offender, was convicted for two...
21
Dec
2017
Media release from the Australian Fisheries Management Authority and the Australian Border Force
A Torres Strait commercial fishing operator has been found guilty and fined $2500 for receiving tropical rock lobster from other operators near Dungeness...
19
Dec
2017
Two men have been found guilty of six offences under the Fisheries Management Act 1991, in relation to fishing for orange roughy off the east coast of Tasmania in June 2015.
Under Commonwealth management, the orange roughy fishery requires commercial...
19
Dec
2017
Media release from the Assistant Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources Anne Ruston
The value of Australian fisheries and aquaculture sector increased by nine per cent to $3 billion in 2015-16, injecting an additional $270 million into rural and...
17
Dec
2017
This week Australians were deceived by some environmentalists who conjured a conspiracy theory that foreign fishing vessels were about to arrive en masse to Australia’s distant offshore waters.
As the CEO of the Australian Fisheries Management...
12
Dec
2017
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) acknowledges the publication of the article by the Fairfax media, Foreign boats set to fish in Australian waters, expert claims, by Nicole Hasham.
AFMA outright rejects any implication that deemed...
11
Dec
2017
Eight Indonesian illegal fishers pleaded guilty in a Darwin Magistrates Court last week for offences of illegal fishing in the Australian Fishing Zone (AFZ) last month. Their three vessels were destroyed by fire at a Darwin destruction facility.
The...
10
Dec
2017
Media release from the Assistant Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources Anne Ruston
Christmas is around the corner and what better way to celebrate with your family than with Aussie
seafood?
Assistant Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources...
07
Dec
2017
Considering the views of stakeholders is an important part of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority’s (AFMA) management of Commonwealth fisheries, including the Small Pelagic Fishery (SPF).
On 16 October 2015, the independent AFMA Commission...
07
Dec
2017
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) has set levy rates for 2017-18.
The total levy for 2017-18 will be divided into three instalments. The first of the three invoices will be sent out on 9 January 2018, with payment due on 6...
07
Dec
2017
Media release from the Assistant Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources Anne Ruston
Australia and Vietnam will commence an in-country public information campaign to educate Vietnamese fishers about the consequences of illegally fishing in...
05
Dec
2017
Australian Fisheries Management Authority media release
A new mandatory fish receiver system (FRS) came into effect on Friday 1 December 2017 for all commercial fishers in all Torres Strait fisheries, excluding prawns.
The FRS is to provide accurate...