Indicator description

Why is it indicative

What does the data show

Data

Acknowledgment

Indicator description

The number of seizures per passenger as a percentage. Seizures include for example fruit, vegetables, insects, horticultural plants etc.

Why is it indicative

Both the clean, green market advantage of Tasmania's produce and its unique biodiversity rely on introduced pests and diseases being kept out of Tasmania.

Through the following efforts Tasmania's agriculture, fisheries, forestry, horticulture industries are protected, as is its unique and special plants and animals:

• quarantine barrier programs;
   
• community and private industry awareness campaigns;
   
• maintenance of human resources on the ground;
   
• increasing collation of quarantine statistics; and
   
• a range of pest management, disease and control response programs.
   

The increase or decrease in the percentage of the number of seizures per passenger from year to year is reflective of the effectiveness of quarantine management and control measures.

What does the data show

• The increase or decrease in the percentage of the number of seizures per passenger from year to year is reflective of the effectiveness of quarantine management and control measures. As this is the first year that the data has been collected in this format it is not possible to determine the percentage increase or decrease of seizures per passenger between 1997 and 2002.
   

Data

Percentage of seizures per passenger.

Caption: Prior to 2001/2002 the data is not available due to changes in reporting format

Financial year	Confiscations (tonnes)	Number of passengers 1	Confiscations per passenger	% increase or decrease per passenger
2001-02 2	324.05	1,591,170.5	0.2 kg	-

1. Passenger numbers are derived from the total number of passengers of inbound domestic and international passengers per financial year.
    


2. Projected totals estimated to June 2002.
    

Source: Quarantine Services, DPIWE

Acknowledgment

Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment and Tasmania Together. This indicator is directly applicable to Goal 20 Indicator 1.1.