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IMOS SOOP - Fishing Vessels as Ships of Opportunity Sub-Facility - Real-time data

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 28/09/2025

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Fishing Vessels as Ships of Opportunity (FishSOOP) is an IMOS Sub-Facility working with fishers to collect real-time temperature and depth data by installing equipment on a network of commercial fishing vessels using a range of common fishing gear. Every day, fishing vessels operate broadly across the productive areas of Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone where we have few subsurface ocean measurements. The Sub-Facility is utilising this observing opportunity to cost-effectively increase the spatial and temporal resolution of subsurface temperature data in Australia’s inshore, shelf, upper-slope, and offshore waters. The data is currently returned to each fishing boat in near-real time, so skippers can relate their catches to temperature-at-depth information. The same data will also be collated to provide oceanographers with quality-controlled data for ground-truthing coastal models and to improve analysis and forecasts of oceanic conditions. The IMOS funded data collection follows on from a Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) funded pilot project (2022-007) with the University of New South Wales, Fishwell Consulting and IMOS. In the first year of the project 32 commercial fishing vessels had been equipped with sensors. They covered a range of fishing vessels, including scallop dredges, tuna longlines, shark gillnets, otter board trawlers, lobster pots, fish traps, prawn trawlers, squid jigs, and danish seines. We also had a pre-trial test with one boat the year prior, with the sensor installed on a trawler.

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Title IMOS SOOP - Fishing Vessels as Ships of Opportunity Sub-Facility - Real-time data
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/0521ceed-9b43-4344-b5e5-02e0e6775afd
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Australian Ocean Data Network
info@aodn.org.au
Reference Period 20/11/2011
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "IMOS SOOP - Fishing Vessels as Ships of Opportunity Sub-Facility - Real-time data". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/imos-soop-fishing-vessels-as-ships-of-opportunity-sub-facility-real-time-data