We wish to advise of a planned IT outage for critical systems and infrastructure maintenance from 6pm Sunday 11 December until 3am Monday 12 December 2022 inclusive.

AFMA is closed during our end-of-year office shutdown period from 24 December 2022 to 2 January 2023 inclusive.

CSIRO will be conducting a pre-season Kaiar abundance survey over the neap tides between 9-22 November 2021.

Inmarsat has advised the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) that a new Network Access Fee will be applied to existing and new owners of Inmarsat C terminals registered in Inmarsat’s Electronic Service Activation System (ESAS).

The Torres Strait Tropical Rock Lobster season starts on 1 December 2021 and the Australian Fisheries Management Authority is reminding fishers and fish receiver to get ready.

We wish to advise of a planned IT outage for critical systems and infrastructure maintenance from 6pm Sunday 4 December until 3am Monday 5 December 2022 inclusive. 

The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA), on behalf of the Protected Zone Joint Authority (PZJA), is seeking applications for Chairs, Scientific Members and Industry members for the various PZJA consultative forums. 

An unlicensed fish receiver operating in the Torres Strait, was convicted in the Thursday Island Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday 13 October 2020, for offences identified in late 2019. The man was found in illegal possession of 41.3 kilograms of processed sea cucumbers (also known as beche de mer) and operating an unlicensed fish receiving operation in the Torres Strait Protected Zone (TSPZ).