Australian Fisheries Management Authority
Australian Fisheries Management Authority
Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry portfolio
Verified figures
- Contracts (all years): 676
- Contract value (all years): 156,832,545 AUD
- Contract value (2026): 13,105,024 AUD
- APS headcount: 170
- Budget 2026-27: 55,321 thousand AUD
- Highest total remuneration: 464,071 AUD
- Directory roles: 5
Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.
Passing mentions (10 shown)
Mentioned in the text but not the headline, so often not about this agency.
- 2026-06-15 — Exemptions the biggest feature of Canberra’s new business KPMG ban
- 2025-12-21 — ANAO finds fewer things to sweat over in annual reports
- 2025-09-25 — APS cultural diversity numbers nudge higher in latest headcount
- 2025-09-04 — Movers & Shakers: DAFF secretary out, AIATSIS welcomes chair
- 2025-07-04 — Gallagher directs regulators to cut the clutter
- 2021-11-08 — Multi-agency effort thwarts illegal fishing off Australian coast
- 2020-08-26 — Parks Australia reshuffles management after no-confidence declaration
- 2019-11-28 — Movers & shakers: dep sec shuffle in PM&C
- 2019-07-11 — Movers & shakers: appointments aplenty in WA
- 2019-03-21 — Movers & shakers: Australia Council and some fishy appointments
Payments to organisations — as reported by the agency
| Category | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Non-consultancy contracts | 59 | $27,673 |
| Consultancy | 19 | $11,916 |
Largest recipients across all reported years
| Organisation | ABN | Reported total | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| CSIRO (Division of Fisheries) | 41687119230 | $8,782 | 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| Ventia Property Pty Ltd (+3 other name(s) on this ABN) | 16618028676 | $6,236 | 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| MTP Services Pty Ltd | 61610143863 | $3,644 | 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| Archipelago Marine Research Ltd (+1 other name(s) on this ABN) | 33169201192 | $3,589 | 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| NPF Industry Pty Ltd | 32126584727 | $2,056 | 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA (+1 other name(s) on this ABN) | 30764374782 | $1,837 | 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| Bhagwan Marine Pty Ltd | 81009154349 | $1,588 | 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| Indigs Pty Ltd | 28623990778 | $1,050 | 2024-25 |
| A23 PTY. LTD. | 81612329781 | $829 | 2024-25 |
| TrackWell | — | $627 | 2024-25 |
| Fish Ageing Services Pty Ltd | 77134707145 | $550 | 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| CLS Oceania Pty Ltd | 26054706035 | $532 | 2024-25 |
From the expenditure disclosures in each annual report — a separate source from the AusTender contract figures above, and not directly comparable with them.
Workforce profile — as at 2025-12-31
| Measure | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| % CALD | 9.8% | at this date |
| % Female | 45.9% | at this date |
| % Indigenous | 2.9% | at this date |
| % at the APS classification level | 70.0% | at this date |
| % non-ongoing | 16.5% | at this date |
| % part-time (ongoing employees) | 8.5% | at this date |
| % who have worked in only one agency (ongoing employees) | 51.4% | at this date |
| % with a bachelors degree or higher | 74.8% | at this date |
| % with a disability | 4.7% | at this date |
| Exit rate - from agency (ongoing employees) | 18.6% | Year ending December 2025 |
| Headcount | 170 | at this date |
| Mean Age (years) | 43.4 years | at this date |
| Median LOS in APS (years) | 7.1 years | at this date |
| Separation rate - from APS (ongoing employees) | 6.4% | at this date |
APSC APS Employment Data, counting this agency including any bodies beneath it. Headcount, not FTE — the APSED release does not publish FTE.
Year by year
| Measure | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APS headcount | 200 | 198 | 197 | 184 | 192 | 191 | 184 | 178 | 161 | 163 | 174 | 174 | 171 | 171 | |
| Contracts | 102 | 102 | 100 | 104 | 94 | 79 | 80 | 15 | |||||||
| Contract value | $13,870,754 | $13,338,972 | $19,226,440 | $24,408,324 | $33,507,126 | $15,720,016 | $31,136,814 | $5,624,098 | |||||||
| Budget ($000) | 58,000 | 55,321 | |||||||||||||
| KMP disclosed | 21 | 19 | 20 | 11 | 28 | 22 | 10 | ||||||||
| Top total pay | $278,494 | $444,693 | $432,194 | $425,113 | $418,359 | $464,071 | $456,065 |
An empty cell means no publishable row for that year — unknown, not nil. Never read a blank as a fall to zero. 1 value(s) for this agency are withheld as implausible against its own median — see Outputs/agency_year_series.csv for them and why.
Sources — annual reports
Each link opens transparency.gov.au — the published source the figures were read from. The label names the table to look for.
° The portal does not publish a path for this report, so the link opens the agency's reports on transparency.gov.au rather than that year directly. Pick the year from there.
