Biological Data from CMR Research Vessels from the Australian North West Shelf (1982-1997 "North West Shelf Study" database)

This was originally a compilation dataset containing all vessel-collected and centrally held biological data from CMR voyages forming part of the 1982-1997 "North West Shelf Study". The data were extracted from the master North West Shelf Database (as described by R. Campbell, 1984 unpublished, with additional data from 1995 and 1997) for the use of the NWS Joint Environmental Management Study, and have been subject to additional maintenance with some new information added by Xi He's group. This version of the data is a copy of the MS Access files held by Xi's group as at October 2000, with no additional quality checks. Data represented are operation, species, and length-frequency data from Soela voyages SO 5/82, SO 6/82, SO 1/83, SO 2/83, SO 3/83, SO 4/83, SO 5/83, SO 6/86, SO 7/87, SO 5/88, Pride of Eden PoE 4/89, Southern Surveyor SS 02/90, SS 04/91, SS 08/95 and SS 07/97. Biological data from other CSIRO voyages through this region but not part of this series of cruises has been extracted separately as a complementary dataset to the present one (see separate metadata record "Biological Data from CMR Research Vessels, North West Shelf, part II"). In addition to the trawl station and catch data, details of photographic stations is included along with recently compiled data from detailed analyses of the underwater photographs carried out subsequent to the original data collection. Additional information regarding individual components of this dataset is contained in separate MarLIN metadata records which exist for each voyage (e.g. "Soela Voyage SO 5/82 Biological Data Overview", etc.), and in the cruise report for each voyage. Information regarding the photographic analyses is held by Xi He's group. Access to BIODATA is now available via the Data Trawler application, please see Data link.

Identification info

Alternate title: BIO

Date

Citation identifier: Marlin Record Number: 5417

Citation identifier: Anzlic Identifier: ANZCW0306005417

Credit: Rob Campbell (former project data manger)

Credit: Franzis Althaus

Credit: Kim Woolley

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Role	Organisation	Electronic mail address
Point of contact	CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere - Hobart
Custodian

Topic category

Oceans

Extent

Temporal extent

Time period: 1982-09-25 1997-09-01

Title

Voyage information see documentation links.

Campbell, R. 1994 draft ms. CSIRO North West Shelf Research Cruise and Commercial Database Holdings. 41+ pp. (copies held in Divisional Data Centre, and Xi He group)

Sainsbury, K. J. (1991). Application of an experimental approach to management of a tropical multispecies fishery with highly uncertain dynamics. In: Daan, N and Sissenwine, M P (Eds.). ICES Marine Science Symposium, 193: 301-320.

Date (Publication): 1994

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

GCMD Keywords

CSIRO Equipment

AODN Geographic Extent Names

Marine Features (Australia) | Australian North West Shelf, WA

CSIRO Project List

North West Shelf Demersal Marine Resources Study (1982-1992)

CSIRO Source List

Resource constraints

Other constraints: Data is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence, please see link. Data is supplied 'as is' without any warranty or guarantee except as required by law to be given to you. The data may not be free of error, comprehensive, current or appropriate for your particular purpose. You accept all risk and responsibility for its use. ATTRIBUTION STATEMENT: The dataset [Insert-dataset-name-here] downloaded on [Insert-DD-Mmm-YYYY-here] was provided by CSIRO.