Program · Outcome 1: Ecologically sustainable and economically efficient Commonwealth fisheries, through understanding and monitoring Australia’s marine living resources and regulating and monitoring commercial fishing, including domestic licensing and deterrence of illegal foreign fishing
Program 1.1: Australian Fisheries Management Authority
Objective 1 Management of Commonwealth fisheries consistent with principles of ecological sustainable development.
Australian Fisheries Management Authority, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 116 reported
$55m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$2.7m (−4.6%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departmental appropriation | departmental | $28m | $25m | −$2.6m −9.5% | reported | AFMA Table 2.1, row 3 |
| AFMA Special Account | departmental | $21m | $22m | +$660k +3.1% | reported | AFMA Table 2.1, row 4 |
| Illegal Foreign Fishing Vessel Caretaking and Disposal | administered | $6.4m | $6.6m | +$185k +2.9% | reported | AFMA Table 2.1, row 2 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $2.4m | $1.5m | −$881k −37.1% | reported | AFMA Table 2.1, row 5 |