Data Credits
Last updated: September 12, 2026
ArtaFishal is built on public data. These are the sources behind the maps, the water, the rules and the forecasts, with the licence each one is used under.
Live weather, tides and swell come from WillyWeather, whose data originates with the © Bureau of Meteorology.
Queensland waterways for waterway barrier works - tidal
© State of Queensland (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries) 2025
- Used for
- Deciding whether the water at a coordinate is tidal or freshwater, which selects the ecosystem template Skipper reasons from.
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
- Source
- https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/queensland-waterways-for-waterway-barrier-works-tidal
Drainage basins - Queensland (drainage divisions layer)
© State of Queensland (Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development)
- Used for
- Telling Gulf of Carpentaria water from the rest of Queensland, which decides when the barramundi closed season starts.
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
- Source
- https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/drainage-basins-queensland
Moreton Bay, Great Sandy and Great Barrier Reef Coast Marine Park zones
© State of Queensland (Department of Environment, Science and Innovation) 2024
- Used for
- Telling Skipper when a point is inside a state marine park zone, so a green zone (no fishing) is said first.
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
- Source
- https://spatial-gis.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/services/Boundaries/AdminBoundariesFramework/FeatureServer
Open-Meteo
Weather data by Open-Meteo.com
- Used for
- Pressure trend, sea surface temperature, swell where WillyWeather has no station, sea state (wind waves) and days 8 to 16 of the forecast.
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Source
- https://open-meteo.com/
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Zoning
© Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority 2023
- Used for
- Telling Skipper when a point on the reef is inside a Great Barrier Reef Marine Park zone, so a green zone (no fishing) is said first.
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Source
- https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=bb4a38f3624b4cc7be61dcec91c0807a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licences require us to say when we have changed the data. Where we reproject, simplify or summarise a dataset to make it usable in the app, the change is described in our source code beside the code that does it.
