Bureau of Rural Sciences, Commercial Fisheries Presence, Australia, 2000-2002
Citation
Bureau of Rural Sciences - National commercial fisheries half-degree data set 2000-2002 https://doi.org/10.15468/0esdv0 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-07.Description
Australian national commercial fisheries presence data summarized by half-degree square, year (2000-2002) and species name. Cells with less than 5 boats represented are excluded, as are commercial "taxa" which represent multiple or otherwise unidentified species. The dataset contains 60,445 records representing 390 separate species. The data were assembled by the former Bureau of Rural Sciences (BRS) which is now a part of the Australian Department of Agriculture.
Additional summary information including catch weights and gross value product per species per square per year is available (part of the former "Atlas of Australian Marine Fishing and Coastal Communities"), please contact the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources for access at http://www.agriculture.gov.au/general-inquiries
Purpose
The dataset was prepared by BRS for the Atlas of Australian Marine Fishing and Coastal Communities project.
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Additional info
marine, harvested by OBIS The data are hosted at CSIRO Australia on behalf of the former Bureau of Rural Sciences (BRS), now included within the Australian Department of Agriculture.Taxonomic Coverages
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Contacts
James Larcombeoriginator
position: Scientist
Bureau of Rural Sciences
GPO Box 858
Canberra
2601
ACT
AU
Telephone: +61 7 3833 5960
email: James.Larcombe@brs.gov.au
metadata author
position: Data Officer
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
GPO Box 1538
Hobart
7001
TAS
AU
Telephone: +61 3 9545 2176
email: OBISAU@csiro.au
homepage: https://research.csiro.au/oa-idc/
OBIS Australia Node manager
publisher
position: OBIS Australia Node manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre
GPO Box 1538
Hobart
7001
TAS
AU
Telephone: +61 3 9545 2176
email: OBISAU@csiro.au
homepage: http://www.obis.org.au
administrative point of contact
position: Data Officer
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
GPO Box 1538
Hobart
7001
TAS
AU
Telephone: +61 3 9545 2176
email: OBISAU@csiro.au
homepage: https://research.csiro.au/oa-idc/