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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://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/3964
Contact:
Larcombe, James Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
This dataset contains the Australian national commercial fisheries presence data summarized by half-degree square, year (2000-2002) and species name. more
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 via the online application "Atlas of Australian Marine Fishing and Coastal Communities" which is accessible from the Australian DAFF site at http://data.daff.gov.au/mapserv/fishcoast/. Scope Themes: Biology > Fish Keywords: Marine/Coastal, ISW, Australia, PSE, Australia, Pisces Temporal coverage
January 2000 - December 2002 Taxonomic coverage
Pisces [WoRMS]
Contributors
Bureau of Rural Sciences (BRS), more, data owner, data provider, data creator
Related datasets
Published in: OBIS-Australia: Australian Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
URLs
Dataset information: Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Metadatarecord created: 2012-12-19
Information last updated: 2015-05-20
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