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Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute - Marine Species
Citation
Dataset Creator: Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI), Kenya Dataset Title: KMFRI Marine Dataset Release Date: September 2010 Dataset Release Place: Mombasa, Kenya Dataset Publisher: AfrOBIS, South Africa Online Resource: http://www.iobis.org/. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/3765
Contact: Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute Mombasa Centre (KMFRI), more
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI). Marine dataset compiled from publications, more

Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI) is a State Corporation in the Ministry of Fisheries Development of the Government of Kenya. It is mandated to conduct aquatic research covering all the Kenyan waters and the corresponding riparian areas including the Kenyan's EEZ in the Indian Ocean waters. This collection was compiled from publications, and it currently consists of 3080 records of 533 families.
Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output
Scope
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Fisheries sicences not elsewhere classified, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Riparian waters, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 37,9062; MinLat: -4,71 - MaxLong: 41,7405; MaxLat: -0,0236 [WGS84]
Contributors
Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute Mombasa Centre (KMFRI), more, data creator
Related datasets
Published in:
AfrOBIS: African Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
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Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Literature research
Release date: 2023-04-27
Metadatarecord created: 2012-12-11
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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