Courageous Cruise 031 Biological Data overview, 1978

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

This record describes the datasets obtained on Courageous Cruise 031. The data were obtained from the Great Australian Bight in February 1978. Data were obtained from acoustic and trawl surveys of the general fish fauna of the western Great Australian Bight including Trachurus declivis and Thunnus maccoyii. A number of specimens of the Sea Trumpeter (Therapon humeralis) were taken by hand line in East Esperance Bay. 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 031 Biological Data overview, 1978
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/a6ce7280-eeff-4c1f-b90c-f2d0e1261ef7
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 05/02/1978 - 20/02/1978
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "Courageous Cruise 031 Biological Data overview, 1978". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/courageous-cruise-031-biological-data-overview-19781