| Summary: | Maintenance and Update Frequency: unknown Statement: All Commercial Fisheries licence holders must provide details of their fishing activities on a prescribed form. Data is received on the prescribed logbook form and is collated, processed and entered by the data entry staff. Validation is undertaken during processing and entry of forms. Data are in numerical and text format, and presented as tabulated data. Approximately 10,000 records by year. The dataset is pre-identified in the sense that the data collected is specified by PIRSA Fisheries & Aquaculture on behalf of the Minister. For further information: The data is hosted by SARDI/PIRSA on behalf of the Minister - restricted access. All data with a distinct licence count of less than 5 is confidential. Refer to SARDI Aquatic Sciences Information Systems Quality Assurance and Data Integrity Report - 2010 (available with the permission of SARDI Aquatic Sciences on behalf of PIRSA Fisheries and the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries). Credit South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) Aquatic Sciences Credit Primary Industries and Regions SA (PIRSA) Fisheries Credit The Minister of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries As part of an ongoing initiative to ensure the sustainability of the State's marine resources, the South Australian Government instigated new management arrangements for charter boat operators. From the 30th of July 2005 all charter boat operators were required to be licensed, and on the 1st August 2005 the Fisheries Management (Charter Boat Fishery) Regulations 2005 were formally introduced.
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