MADAGASCAR National Oceanographic Data Centre - Fish
AfrOBIS

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The Madagascar National Oceanographic Data Centre is attached to the University of Toliara. Some of the research achievements of the Oceanographic Data Centre are: a project for the protection of coastal reefs in south-western Madagascar; a marine biodiversity assessment in the same coastal area; a socio-economic investigation of traditional fishing practices; and bio-ecological surveys to facilitate the development of a sustainable marine park in the Masoala area far away on Madagascar’s northeast coast. This dataset has been collected in Toliara Bay, and includes bony fish, cartilagenous fish, mammals and reptiles. It currently consists of 721 records of 49 families.

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Original data obtained from http://fred.csir.co.za:8000/digir/DiGIR.php and registered into iOBIS on 2011-05-22. This dataset on OBIS-SEAMAP is a subset of marine mammal, seabird and/or sea turtle records from the dataset on iOBIS (Total number of records: 721) harvested into OBIS-SEAMAP on 2011-10-11

Dataset Creator: MADAGASCAR National Oceanographic Data Centre, Madagascar

Dataset Title: Fish

Dataset Release Place: Toliara, Madagascar

Dataset Publisher: AfrOBIS, South Africa

Online Resource: http://www.iobis.org/

Data on iOBIS. http://iobis.org/mapper/?resource_id=2337, obtained on 2011-10-11

Original data source. http://fred.csir.co.za:8000/digir/DiGIR.php

Overview

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