CSIRO, Soviet Fishery Data, Australia, 1965-1978

OBIS and OBIS Australia

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. 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.

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This dataset was downloaded from OBIS (https://obis.org/). The records for only marine mammals, seabirds, sea turtles and rays and sharks were extracted. Records with no longitude/latitude or no date (eventDate) were excluded.
OBIS dataset page:
https://obis.org/dataset/97d434fe-2a1b-47ab-8b76-7789685bf116
Data Provider's dataset page:
http://ogc-act.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=csiro_soviet_fishery_data

The dataset has been updated over time as outlined below. Each entry includes the version number, release date, type of change, and a short description.

Overview

Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
All attributes are included in the downloadable file (CSV or ESRI File Geodatabase) for "Complete Set of Dataset".

Attributes in dataset

Attribute (table column)	Description
oid
id
dataset_id
scientificname
vernacularname
aphiaid
taxonrank
individualcount
eventdate
eventtime
decimallatitude
decimallongitude
coordinateprecision
catalognumber
collectioncode
occurrencestatus
basisofrecord
modified
node_id
occurrenceid
occurrenceremarks
eventid
institutioncode
lifestage
sex
species
datasetid
country
locality
waterbody
dropped
absence
marine
obs_datetime
tprecision
on_land
date_in_future