WAMSI Node 3.2.2a - Ecosystem Effects of fishing on Ningaloo Reef: Broadscale fish surveys

The Ningaloo Marine Park (State Waters) Plan 1989 was designated A class in 1990. A review of the Management Plan began in 2000; this resulted in a revised Management Plan being approved by the Minister in January 2005. Changes in the current Management Plan include extending the Marine Park southwards to incorporate the full extent of the reef, increasing the number and extent of Sanctuary Zones, introducing Special Purpose Benthic Protection and shore-based line fishing zones. The purpose of this project is to assess the effectiveness of 1989 Management Plan and also provide what will become the first data point in a long-term data set. These data will become an integral part of several sections of the NRP, evaluating the effectiveness of zoning for biodiversity conservation, assessing the implications of zoning for fish populations and for fishing outside sanctuary zones. The surveys will provide data not only for newly established zones, but also for those zones already established within the park under previous zoning provisions. Where possible the survey will build on existing data sets, though these are limited in scope and spatial extent. Objectives For fish taxa targeted by anglers (e.g. labridae, lethrinidae, lutjanidae, serranidae, carangidae): - Measure the distribution, abundance and size-structure of key fish populations at Ningaloo - Provide data that will allow a quantitative comparison of these parameters to be made across Ningaloo Marine Park zones (pre-2005 sanctuary zones, new sanctuary zones, benthic protection zones, recreational zones and general use zones). - Provide data that will form the basis for being able to: - Measure the rate and magnitude of any changes in fish population size or structure related to changes in marine park zoning - Determine how responses of fish populations may vary with respect to factors such as size of reserve, type of reserve, distance from boundary and fish life-history - Parameterize and test spatially-explicit models of fish populations.

Identification info

Alternate title: WAMSI Node 3.2.2a

Date

Citation identifier: Marlin Record Number: 8806

Citation identifier: Anzlic Identifier: ANZCW0306008806

Credit: Funded by CSIRO and WAMSI (Western Australian Institute of Marine Science)

Credit: Mat Vanderklift

Credit: Russ Babcock

Credit: Doug Bearham

Credit: Geordie Clapin

Credit: Kylie Cook

Credit: Harriet Davie

Credit: Ryan Downie

Credit: Mick Haywood

Credit: David Kozak

Credit: Andrew Limbourn

Credit: Nicole Murphy

Credit: Fiona Parker

Credit: Julia Phillips

Credit: Richard Pillans

Credit: Damian Thomson

Credit: CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Role	Organisation	Electronic mail address
Point of contact	CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere - St. Lucia

Topic category

Biota
Environment
Oceans

Extent

Temporal extent

Time period: 2006-01-01 2007-12-31

Vertical element

Minimum value: -20

Maximum value: 0

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

GCMD Keywords

CSIRO Equipment

Underwater Surveys (acquisition and/or analysis)

AODN Geographic Extent Names

CSIRO Global Project List

Western Australian Marine Science Institute

Resource constraints

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Language: English

Character encoding: UTF8

Distribution Information

Distribution format

DIGITAL - Database Files - MS Access

OnLine resource: Data Link

WAMSI data repository

OnLine resource

Name of the resource: Project Data Location

Description

WAMSI CMAR data repository

at http://www-cmar-per.vm.csiro.au/wamsi/

http://imos.aodn.org.au/webportal/ - AATAMS

Data quality info

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Report

Result

Date (Publication)

Explanation: Complete

Resource lineage

Statement: Data collection was carried out by diver surveys (underwater visual census) - see final report for further information

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Metadata

Metadata identifier: bc1b3741-e787-5039-e044-00144f7bc0f4

Language: English

Character encoding: UTF8

Contact

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

Metadata linkage: Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Date info (Creation): 2011-08-10T00:00:00

Date info (Revision): 2016-07-05T19:03:59

Metadata standard

Title: ISO 19115-3:2018

Title: Marine Community Profile

Date (Creation): 2019-05-30

Edition: 3.0

Edition date: 2019-05-30T00:00:00

Cited responsible party

Role	Organisation	Electronic mail address
Custodian	Marine Community Profile Governance Committee

Spatial extent

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