Indigenous Fishing Catch Northern Territory and Queensland
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35 > Chapter 4 Atlas - Northern Map 13A - Indigenous Fishing Catch Northern Territory and Queensland. Non-bait catches for the year beginning May 2000. 135°E 140°E 145°E NO. FISH NO. FISH Indonesia Saltwater Freshwater Papua New Guinea x1000x1000 x1000x1000 no data no data Gulf of Papua 0 - 0.2 0 - 2 0.2 - 3 2 - 9 Bramble Cay 3 - 15 9 - 21 Deliverance I. East Cay 16 - 49 22 - 38 50 - 100 39 - 65 Yorke I. Fisheries Uses and Social Indicators in Australia’s Marine Jurisdiction 10°S Yam I. Maer I. 10°S 110 - 180 66 - 160 Arafura Sea Torres Strait 190 - 620 170 - 610 ! Thursday Island Torres Strait Protected Zone Injinoo Cobourg Cape Croker ! !Bamaga Penisula Croker Cape Wessel Outside but near Area Island Mullet Bay Wessel Coral Sea Goulburn Islands Australian Seabed Jurisdiction Islands Elcho Van Diemen Cape Stewart Island Cape Wilberforce ! Northern Planning Area ! Mapoon Gulf ! Cape Grenville Maningrida Milingimbi ! Nhulunbuy (Gove) When reading this (and other) maps it should noted that the statistical areas vary greatly in extent and encompass ! !Jabiru Pine River Bay Weipa (Napranum) varying amounts of fish habitat. Fishing is usually quite ! Albatross Bay Lockhart River patchy in its distribution within a statistical area. Cape Grey Wonga Bay Wardarlea Bay ! Cape Cape Shield Aurukun Blue Mud York Bay Gulf of Carpentaria Penisula 100 km Angurugu Groote ! ± ! Coen Eylandt Cape Beatrice Marangala Data Sources: Bay National Recreational and Indigenous Fishing Survey !Ngukurr Limmen Bight (Henry and Lyle 2003), including components from !Pormpuraaw Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, 15°S 15°S and Northern Territory, Department of Business, Industry and Resource Development (DBIRD), Fisheries. Sir Edward Pellew Group !Kowanyama ! Terrestrial features: Australian Land Information Group. Bing Bong Cartography and digital compilation: Bureau of Rural Sciences. www.brs.gov.au !Borroloola Queensland Copyright 2005 Mornington Cape Van Diemen Island ! Data are assumed to be correct as received from suppliers. Northern Territory Wellesley Island Group Sweers Island !Karumba !Normanton !Burketown !Doomadgee 135°E 140°E 145°E Map 13B - Indigenous Fishing Catch Composition Atlas - Northern Northern Territory and Queensland. Numerical composition, year beginning May 2000. 135°E 140°E 145°E Indonesia CATCH COMPOSITION Papua New Guinea Gulf of Papua BAITFISH FINFISH CRABS/LOBSTERS Bramble Cay PRAWNS/YABBIES Deliverance I. East Cay CEPHALOPOD Yorke I. MOLLUSCS 10°S Yam I. Maer I. 10°S Arafura Sea Torres Strait Torres Strait Protected Zone Fisheries Uses and Social Indicators in Australia’s Marine Jurisdiction ! Thursday Island Outside but near Area Injinoo Cobourg Cape Croker ! !Bamaga Penisula Croker Cape Wessel Australian Seabed Jurisdiction Island Mullet Bay Wessel Coral Sea Goulburn Islands Northern Planning Area Islands Elcho Van Diemen Cape Stewart Island Cape Wilberforce ! White background indicates No Data. ! Milingimbi Mapoon Cape Grenville Gulf ! Nhulunbuy (Gove) Maningrida ! When reading this (and other) maps it should noted that the statistical areas vary greatly in ! Pine River Bay !Weipa (Napranum) extent and encompass varying amounts of Jabiru Albatross Bay !Lockhart River fish habitat. Fishing is usually quite patchy in Cape Grey its distribution within a statistical area. Wonga Bay Wardarlea Bay ! Cape Cape Shield Aurukun Blue Mud York Bay Penisula Gulf of Carpentaria 100 km Groote ! !Coen Eylandt ± Cape Beatrice Marangala Data Sources: Bay National Recreational and Indigenous Fishing Survey !Ngukurr Limmen Bight (Henry and Lyle 2003), including components from !Pormpuraaw Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, 15°S 15°S and Northern Territory, Department of Business, Industry and Resource Development (DBIRD), Fisheries. Sir Edward Pellew Group !Kowanyama Terrestrial features: Australian Land Information Group. ! Bing Bong Cartography and digital compilation: Bureau of Rural Sciences. www.brs.gov.au !Borroloola Queensland Copyright 2005 Mornington Cape Van Diemen Island ! Data are assumed to be correct as received from suppliers. Northern Territory Wellesley Island Group Sweers Island !Karumba !Normanton !Burketown !Doomadgee 135°E 140°E 145°E 36 > Chapter 4.