Bureau of Rural Sciences, Commercial Fisheries Presence, Australia, 2000-2002

OBIS and OBIS Australia

Australian national commercial fisheries presence data summarized by half-degree square, year (2000-2002) and species name. Cells with less than 5 boats represented are excluded, as are commercial "taxa" which represent multiple or otherwise unidentified species. The dataset contains 60,445 records representing 390 separate species. The data were assembled by the former Bureau of Rural Sciences (BRS) which is now a part of the Australian Department of Agriculture.
Additional summary information including catch weights and gross value product per species per square per year is available (part of the former "Atlas of Australian Marine Fishing and Coastal Communities"), please contact the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources for access at http://www.agriculture.gov.au/general-inquiries

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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/d13ec1f1-d82a-4cdb-92e9-3f2144bf7a2e
Data Provider's dataset page:
http://ogc-act.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=brs_2000_2002

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