Southern Demersal Gillnet and Demersal Longline Managed Fishery - Schedule 6 Closed waters

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

Australian sea lions (ASL) are protected by the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. The Australian sea lion Gillnet Exclusion Zones (Zones) are the latest changes in WA to address concerns about ASLs. Waters within the Zones will be closed to gillnet fishing by commercial demersal gillnet and demersal longline operators, however fishers will still be able to use gillnets outside these Zones. The Zones have been established to reduce the risk of ASLs interacting with demersal gillnets when foraging around their breeding colonies and to maintain a viable commercial fishery.

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Title Southern Demersal Gillnet and Demersal Longline Managed Fishery - Schedule 6 Closed waters
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/6da2af8e-931b-47c3-887c-6cae305d7bab
Remote Last Updated 26/05/2022
Contact Point
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development
gis.support@dpird.wa.gov.au
Reference Period 01/03/2019
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Western Australia Government "Southern Demersal Gillnet and Demersal Longline Managed Fishery - Schedule 6 Closed waters". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/sdgdlmf-schedule-6-closed-waters