Courageous Cruise 004 Biological Data overview, 1975

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

This record describes the datasets from Courageous Cruise 004, the third in a series of acoustic and trawl surveys for Jack mackerel (Trachurus declivis) and other demersal and pelagic fish. The survey was conducted between November and December 1975 in waters off the New South Wales coast, Bass Strait, the west and east coasts of Tasmania. Species recorded in trawls included jack mackerel, snot-gall trevalla, and small lantern fish. Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the cruise summary for this voyage.(derived from the cruise report) - Biological Field Data Sheets recorded during this voyage have been scanned to PDF, and are available (to CSIRO Staff) on-line. See the details link under "Stored Media List" (below).

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title Courageous Cruise 004 Biological Data overview, 1975
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/fc00e440-d6c6-4b75-854e-9486caa42307
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 26/11/1975 - 21/12/1975
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal CSIRO Marlin

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "Courageous Cruise 004 Biological Data overview, 1975". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/courageous-cruise-004-biological-data-overview-19751