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

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title Bottom Trawl Surveys: Catch and Effort Data For South East Australia Between 1898 - 1996
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/e1f5019e-eec6-4a72-89bd-b1239fab47cc
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Camilla.Novaglio@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/01/1898 - 01/01/1996
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        143.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        153.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        153.0,
        -32.0
      ],
      [
        143.0,
        -32.0
      ],
      [
        143.0,
        -44.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal CSIRO Marlin

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "Bottom Trawl Surveys: Catch and Effort Data For South East Australia Between 1898 - 1996". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/bottom-trawl-surveys-catch-and-effort-data-for-south-east-australia-between-1898-19961