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CSIRO, Soviet Fishery Data, Australia, 1965-1978
Citation
CSIRO - Soviet Fishery surveys in Australian waters 1965-78. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/4773
Contact: Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), more
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Description
This dataset comprises catch compositions and trawl locations from 35 cruises of Russian fishery research vessels carried out in Australian waters between March 1965 and April 1978, containing some 4000 demersal trawls, mostly on the Australian continental shelf, in particular the Great Australian Bight, Australian North West Shelf, and the Gulf of Carpentaria, but also on the east and west coasts, in Bass Strait, and around Tasmania. more

Most records include catch composition by species (presence/absence but not weight), also some data on length frequency, maturity and diet of commercially important species. The dataset is an aggregate dataset from cruises of the vessels Berg-1, Berg-2, Seskar, Raduga, Lira, Berg-3, Korifei, Sutchan, Pr. Deruygin, Prometey, SETM 8-449, Alba, Poseidon, Equator, Shantar, Bacaevo, Kamensky, Tichookeanscy, Pulk. Meridian and Mys Tichy. The data were obtained by exchange with Soviet scientists in the mid 1990s and has had CSIRO species codes incorporated.
Scope
Themes:
Biology
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, ISEW, Australia
Geographical coverage
ISEW, Australia [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
1965 - 1978
Parameter
Occurrence of biota
Contributors
Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), more, data creator
Williams, Alan
Related datasets
Published in:
OBIS-Australia: Australian Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
Publication
Based on this dataset
Koslow, J.A. et al. (1998). Exchange and analysis of historical Soviet fishery survey data from the waters around Australia. CSIRO Div. of Marine Research: Hobart. 47 pp., more
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2015-03-11
Information last updated: 2015-05-20
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