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Australian Fisheries
Compliance
News
18 Dec 2024
Illegal snapper catch nets $10,000 in penalties

Two commercial fishers pleaded guilty at Bairnsdale Magistrates Court on Wednesday, 5 December 2024 to an illegal catch of more than 20 times the allowable limit for snapper. 

Compliance
News
16 Dec 2024
Illegal fishers reel in $84,000 in fines

Sixteen Indonesian nationals pleaded guilty to illegally fishing within Australian waters in two separate cases at Darwin Local Court on Tuesday, 26 November 2024. The vessels were targeting sea cucumber, a highly prized delicacy commonly sold in Asian markets.

Australian Fisheries
News
12 Dec 2024
AFMA announces Commonwealth fisheries levy rates and due dates for 2024–25
Compliance
News
11 Dec 2024
More than one billion Rupiah of sea cucumber seized in Operation Pristis

This is a joint media release between the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) and the Australian Border Force (ABF).

Compliance
News
24 Nov 2024
Authorities intercept two illegal foreign fishing vessels off the remote Northern Territory coastline

This is a joint media release between the Australian Border Force (ABF) and the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA).

Compliance
News
21 Nov 2024
Caught and convicted: imprisonment for illegal fishers

This is a joint media release between the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) and Australian Border Force (ABF).

Australian Fisheries
Compliance
News
20 Nov 2024
Fourteen foreign fishing vessels interdicted in Australian waters

This is a joint media release between the Australian Border Force (ABF) and the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA).

News
05 Nov 2024
Fisheries partnership stopping illegal fishing at its source

In July and August 2024, the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) in partnership with Indonesia’s Directorate-General of Surveillance and Control of Marine and Fishery Resources successfully delivered two educational workshops to fishing communities in Oesapa and Papela in the East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia.