Following the resounding success of the 2023 black teatfish fishing season, the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) would like to acknowledge and thank Traditional Inhabitant Boat Licence Holders for their efforts to provide timely and accurate data regarding their catch. The 2023 black teatfish fishing season opened and closed in May, after the total allowable catch was caught in just three and a half days.

The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA), in partnership with multi-agency Maritime Border Command (MBC), continues to target illegal foreign fishing in Australian waters to protect our precious marine resources. 

Participants in this year’s National Seafood Industry Leadership Program (NSILP) heard an in-depth overview of AFMA and its responsibilities from Ryan Murphy, Senior Manager, Policy, Environment and Research, Fisheries Management Branch, and Tod Spencer, Senior Manager, National Compliance Strategy, Fisheries Operations Branch. 

March of this year, Yang Wu (right), one of our Senior Fisheries Officers, secured a place in the government funded National Seafood Industry Leadership Program (NSILP). 

This is a statement of legal expenditure published by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) in compliance with the requirements mandated by paragraph 11.1(ba) of the Legal Services Directions of 2017, which directs that by 30 October each year, agencies must make publicly available records of the legal services expenditure for the previous financial year. Outlined below is a breakdown of the legal services expenditures by AFMA for the financial year 2022–23: Please note that all the figures provided are exclusive of Goods and Services Tax (GST).

As part of our capacity building effort in the Pacific, our International Compliance Operations, and Legal teams assisted in delivering the Certificate IV in Fisheries Compliance and Enforcement and competency-based assessments in in Suva, Fiji, in August 2023.