This dataset was created to document the scoring of a camera tow from SS2007/02 SE MPA's survey Specifically, the camera tow on Hill Patience, to derive data from the tow relating to the number of basket work eels observed. To collect this data, video footage from SS2007/02 SE MPA's camera tow on Patience Hill was observed on a monitor screen with lines marked on it - the video was stopped every five seconds, and marine fauna within the marked lines were counted, with the marked lines used in order to prevent double counting of the animals. This data was recorded in an excel spreadsheet, with a list of the different species recorded and the timecodes that they were recorded at. This data was then used in conjuction with other data from station 54 relating to the depth and structure of the seafloor, in order to determine any relation between marine life numbers and the surrounding habitat.

Biological data collected by FV Rehua during the transit from NZ to Devonport. Samples were collected with MIDOC net fitted to commercial trawl nets. In June 2009 scientific sampling of the Tasman Sea micronekton was carried out from a 65 metre factory freezer vessel, the FV Rehua, The voyage took place from Nelson New Zealand on the 17th 2009 June arriving in Devonport (Tasmania), Australia on the 22th June 2009. During the five day transit the vessel was under charter from Petuna Sealord to CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research for a total of 24 hrs. The charter time was approximately divided into eight three-hour deep-water deployments that formed three sets of day/night experiments. Three main sampling instruments were used: (1) Sampling of micronekton (primarily biota < 20 cm) was made from 1000 m depth to the surface in 5 sets of equally spaced (200 metre) strata using a fine-mesh multiple opening closing net system (MIDOC). This system was fitted to either the vessel's midwater or demersal commercial net. (2) The digitised return signal from the vessel's 38 kHz Simrad ES60 echosounder was logged for the duration of the voyage. This will allow us to map the along-transect acoustic reflectivity at 38 kHz of the Tasman Sea basin from the surface down to 1500 metres. (3) An Acoustic-Optically System (AOS) was attached to the headline of the demersal net to measure the acoustic reflectivity of individual biota at two frequencies (38 and 120 kHz) and record concurrent optical images using digital SLR still cameras and PAL video system. The AOS was deployed vertically down to 1000 metres depths on two occasions. On four occasions it was attached to the headline of the demersal net that had been fitted with the MIDOC cod-end.

Australia has gazetted an ambitious national network of Commonwealth Marine Reserves that includes the iconic Huon and Tasman Fracture reserves off Tasmania where seamounts (‘undersea mountains’) support unique deep-water coral reefs. These reefs rank among the most bio-diverse globally. Protection of deep-water coral reefs is a high-priority conservation concern nationally and internationally because deep-water corals are very fragile, easily impacted by human activities including bottom trawling, and are believed to recover very slowly. These corals may also be highly vulnerable to climate change because projected changes in water chemistry could limit the ability of corals to build calcareous skeletons. Despite these concerns, and Australia’s significant investment in marine conservation, several fundamental ecological issues remain to be evaluated. These include defining the spatial extent of deep-sea coral communities inside and outside the Tasmanian reserves, and evaluating the resilience of the communities to bottom trawling. This information is important to understanding the dynamics of deep-sea communities globally, and for developing and implementing conservation management plans. The survey aboard RV Investigator set out to determine the spatial extents of deep-sea coral communities in and adjacent to the Huon and Tasman Fracture reserves, and quantify changes in the communities by comparing samples taken in 2018 to samples taken, using similar methods, in 2007 and 1997. There was supplementary sampling on the heavily trawled St. Helens Seamount which was surveyed in 2008. This metadata record refers to the image data collected during the survey. The imagery collected for this project have been registered to the 2018 incidence of the CSIRO VARS database, where annotations have been added. The annotations collected for this project have also been linked to the Oracle data base BHIMAGE and the associated videos and still images have been archived as described in MarLIN record 14436 'Benthic Habitats Video Image Archive'.

Auto-Longline/dropline and baited camera systems used to survey 22 shelf break locations and one seamount location between Brisbane (QLD) and Hobart (TAS)to investigate the distribution of gulper shark species (genus Centrophorus). Three replicate samples of 1500 hooks at each station (except seamount) and up to four camera replicates from most stations. Complete catch composition and distribution of five Centrophorus species recorded. Tissue samples (genetics) collected from 587 dogsharks, 335 sharks tagged. All data in Exel spreadsheet 948KB. Voyage Report PDF 2571 KB. Tagged animals also entered into CMAR 'Tuna' tag database. Still and avi images 7.7 GB.

The seabed habitat, marine plant and sessile megabenthos cover of the 50,000 km² area of the Torres Strait Protected Zone and adjacent shelf seabed was observed by a 500 m transect of a Drop-Camera video system at 173 sites, representing a wide range of known physical environments, during one 1-month-long voyage on the James Cook University vessel James Kirby. Continuous underway coding during transects recorded cover of 9 substrata types, 26 biohabitat types, and occurrence of 12 faunal classes. Laboratory post-analysis of the video recorded more detail at ~30 random frames per transect, including: 20 substratum types, 92 biological types -- the dataset comprises ~28,000 site-by-type records. In addition, during most transects, digital still photographs were taken at 5-15 second intervals with strobes, and CTD data were recorded.

The seabed habitat, marine plant and sessile megabenthos cover of the 200,000 km² area of the GBR shelf seabed was observed by a 500 m transect of a Drop-Camera video system at 1210 sites, representing a full range of known physical environments, during six 1-month-long voyages on the AIMS vessel Lady Basten. Continuous underway coding during transects recorded cover of 9 substrata types, 26 biohabitat types, and occurrence of 12 faunal classes. Laboratory post-analysis of the video recorded more detail at ~30 random frames per transect, including: 11 physical topography types, 23 substratum types, 115 biological types -- the dataset comprises 176,000 records site-by-type records. In addition, during most transects, digital still photographs were taken at 5-15 second intervals with strobes, and CTD data were recorded.