Courageous Cruise 006 Biological Data overview, 1976

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

This record describes the datasets from Courageous Cruise 006. The data were obtained from waters off the New South Wales coast, Bass Strait and Victorian coast in February 1976. Data were obtained from acoustic and trawl surveys for jack mackerel (Trachurus declivis), pennant lantern fish (Maurolicus muelleri) and other demersal and pelagic fish species as well as pelagic crustacea, squid, myctophids, chauliodontid and paralepid. Stock size have been determined. 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 006 Biological Data overview, 1976
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/7362d8f8-dbd0-4244-9e16-05b72cd25d41
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/02/1976 - 24/02/1976
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 006 Biological Data overview, 1976". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/courageous-cruise-006-biological-data-overview-19761