Bottom Trawl Surveys: Catch and Effort Data For South East Australia, 1898-1996

Camilla Novaglio

doi:10.15468/uoa9tr

Bottom Trawl Surveys: Catch and Effort Data For South East Australia, 1898-1996

Citation

Novaglio C (2016). Bottom Trawl Surveys: Catch and Effort Data For South East Australia, 1898-1996. CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/uoa9tr accessed via GBIF.org on 2019-10-15.

Description

This record contains catch and effort data from scientific bottom trawl surveys carried out along the coast of South East Australia between 1898 and 1996. The data is on demersal chondrichthyes and osteichthyes. Data used was from multiple research vessels form various agencies and historical archives, The vessels included Soela, Courageous, Kapala, Zeehan, Challenger, Mary Belle, Bluefin, Petuna Endeavour, Margaret Philippa, Dannevig and Endeavour. Please refer to documentation link for further information.

Purpose

Bottom trawl surveys were carried out in South East Australia between 1898 and 1997, and sampled demersal fish communities of this region both before and at different stages since trawling begun. These surveys were performed by various research agencies, which collected and organized catch and effort data in different formats; also the detail of the information reported changed across surveys and over the years. Despite the value of these data, there has not yet been a systematic effort to collect, digitalize and standardize all of the information available.

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS Original data is from CSIRO historical archives, IMAS database (Jeremy Lyle), NSW DPI database (Ken Graham), James Craig (DPI, NSW) and O&A Data Centre holdings. Data approved for public release on 17/03/2016 by Jeremy Lyle (UTAS IMAS and Neil Klaer (CSIRO O&A Hobart).

Taxonomic Coverages

Fish catch records from benthic trawling

Actinopterygii
rank: class
Holocephali
rank: class
Elasmobranchii
rank: class

Geographic Coverages

South East Australia

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Camilla Novaglio
originator
position: Researcher
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
Castray Esplande
Hobart
7001
Tasmania
AU

Camilla Novaglio
metadata author
position: Researcher
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
Castray Esplande
Hobart
7001
Tasmania
AU

Camilla Novaglio
user
position: Researcher
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
Castray Esplande
Hobart
7001
Tasmania
AU

Camilla Novaglio
administrative point of contact
position: Researcher
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
Castray Esplande
Hobart
7001
Tasmania
AU

Dave Watts
technical point of contact
email: dave.watts@csiro.au