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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 Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.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 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 | ||||
