Fishery status reports 2025

Fishery status reports 2025 provides an independent evaluation of the biological and economic status of fish stocks managed solely or jointly by the Australian Government.

This 30th edition of the Fishery status reports covers the biological status of 56 stocks across 20 fisheries. The reports summarise the performance of these fisheries against the requirements of fisheries legislation and policy.

The annual ABARES Fishery status reports normally assesses more than 100 fish stocks across more than 20 fisheries. However, because of a change to the reporting timeline in 2025, a reduced number of stocks are considered in 2025. Stocks in the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery and the Small Pelagic Fishery are not considered in 2025. For these stocks, please refer to Fishery status reports 2024. We will resume consideration of the full suite of stocks and fisheries in Fishery status reports 2026.

A summary of economic information for all fisheries up to the 2023–24 financial year is provided in the Overview chapter and in Appendix B.

The fisheries assessed in the Fishery status reports 2025 generated an estimated gross value of production (GVP) of $403 million in 2023–24, which represents 25% of Australia's estimated total wild-catch fisheries GVP of $1.58 billion.

The Fishery status reports are one of several ABARES publications that provide comprehensive information and analysis for Australian fisheries. The annual Australian fisheries and aquaculture statistics reports contain comprehensive information on commercial fishing and aquaculture in Australia covering fisheries production, trade data and consumption and employment statistics. The Australian fisheries economic indicators reports present results from ABARES fishery surveys of selected Commonwealth fisheries, including detailed analysis of the net economic returns to the Australian community.

Australian Fishing Zone showing the location of Commonwealth fisheries

Shows Australia and the Australian exclusive economic zone as well as the approximate locations of Australian-managed fisheries

New dashboard for viewing status for all Commonwealth stocks from 1992

ABARES is pleased to provide a new dashboard that allows readers to filter and display stock status data from 1992 to 2024 at different levels including by stock, species group, fishery, year, or whether solely or jointly-managed by the Australian Government.

The PowerBI dashboard may not meet accessibility requirements. For information about the content of this dashboard, contact ABARES.

Fishery status reports 2025 - single file with the compiled updated chapters

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Please reference individual chapters as per the following example:

Keller, K, Davis, K and Curtotti, R 2025, ‘Coral Sea Fishery’, in I Butler, H Patterson, RS Cottrell, D Bromhead, D Galeano, T Timmiss, J Woodhams and R Curtotti (Eds) Fishery status reports 2025, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra, DOI: https://doi.org/10.25814/ewe9-4p7. CC BY 4.0.

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Full history of Commonwealth fisheries’ stock status from 1992 until present

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Download previous reports

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Fisheries Status Report Map Data 2010-2023