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Earth Science | Biological Classification | Animals/Vertebrates | Fish
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This is a historical data set containing a recored of all types of fish caught in the Pilbara region of the Australian Northwest shelf since the 1960's. The data was source from both domestic and foreign fishers. It was transcribed from the fishers paper logbooks and contains catch (type, weight, date, location) and effort (number of boat days).
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The Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD) is an informatics workbench aiding the acquisition, storage, analysis and publication of DNA barcode records. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR) contributes to this database, as of May 2008, it has contributed about 1000 species of fish, mostly from multiple samples, along with ~100 species of decapods and ~100 species of echinoderms (marine invertebrates). There is DNA data for a specific gene (COI). The collection of data includes GPS location, date, depth, who collected and identified sample, and some have photos. The samples used in providing the information to the Database from CMAR are housed at the Marine Laboratories in Hobart.
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Exploratory survey of Orange Roughy by the FV San Rankino south of Tasmania in 1992. This ship fished for Orange Roughy to support Southern Surveyor SS9201. The data includes station logs and catch composition.
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CSIRO holds hard copies of longline data (in Japanese) from two Fisheries High Schools: Misaki Fisheries High School, 1969–2000; Shonan Maru (570 pp). Sakai Fishery High School, 1969–1997; Wakatori Maru (324 pp). These reports were provided by the Tokyo University of Fisheries library, where they appear under the titles Josen Jisshu Hokokusho Shonan Maru and Josen Jisshu Hokokusho Wakatori Maru in OPAC. The information contained in these reports relates to the operation of tuna longlines, and includes fishing effort, oceanography and catch composition, and is reported by individual set. Shark are reported only as a general category in both these data sets. The Shonan Maru appeared to make several voyages each year of 1–2 months duration. Examples of translation sheets are included with the hard copies.
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Sawfish collection records have been collated for a number of conservation assessment projects. This MarLIN record refers specifically to a customised dataset that was created for delivery to the Department of the Environment and Water Resources (DEW). The dataset comprises distribution records of the freshwater sawfish, Pristis microdon, and the green sawfish, Pristis zijsron, in northern Australia. The records include incidental catches in prawn trawls and gill nets. The data sources included logbook and observer data from state and Commonwealth fisheries, and museum records. The dataset includes records from dataset 'Sawfish catch data in Northern Australia' (MarLIN record 6549).
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The dataset contains the traditional island names for fish and reefs which differ between the three Torres Strait Islander communities of Darnley, Murray and Yorke.
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A total of 11 research cruises were carried out on the "Milana J", "Island Girl" and the FRV Southern Surveyor between 1993 and 1995 to study ponyfish (Leiognathid) biology and ecology. Data were collected on ponyfish length, weight, sex and gonad weight.
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This data set is the laboratory analysis of Lipids, fatty acids and sterols of numerous species of marine animals from the Tasman Sea, Pacific and Southern Ocean, collected between 1986 and 2008. Some portions of the data collection and analysis are still ongoing.
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The fish fauna of the edge of coral reefs in Torres Strait was investigated by underwater visual transects at 276 sites on 41 reefs between August 1995 and January 1996. The fish community contained most common families of tropical Indo-Pacific coral reefs. Acanthurids, Chaetodontids, Pomacentrids and Labrids were the most widespread and speciose families observed. The relative abundance of each species at each site was used to classify sites with multi-dimensional scaling (MDS). The species composition varied strongly across the region with sites classifying into four distinct groups. These represented groups of fish species most abundant on (1) the eastern outer ribbon reefs; (2) the mid- shelf reefs; (3) central Warrior reef complex and (4) the western reefs north of Moa Island. These patterns in fish community structure were related to changes in the relative proportions of the major benthic habitats in each area. Many species tended to be abundant either in areas of high coral cover (eastern outer ribbon reefs) or high algal cover (central and western reefs). Other factors that were correlated with fish species composition included the distance from sources of terrestrial runoff in Papua New Guinea and Cape York, northern Australia. This effect is likely to be indirect, through the influence of runoff of benthic habitats. These results show that fish communities in Torres Strait are strongly structured and influenced by the benthic habitats. The distribution of benthic habitats are in turn heavily influenced by the regional physical processes that occur because of the location of Torres Strait between Australia and Papua New Guinea. Refer to the published report: Milton DA and Long BG. (1997) Influence of Coastal Processes on Large Scale Patterns in Reef Fish Communities of Torres Strait, Australia. Final Report June 1997 (MR-GIS 97/6). CSIRO Marine Research, Cleveland. 14pp.
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CAT Scans (Computerized Axial Tomography) of Deep Sea Fish: - Orange Roughy - Icefish (Smoothed and sharp images) - Blue Grenadier - Oreo Dories (Spiky, Smooth and Warty) - Warehou. All images were recorded at the Royal Hobart Hospital between 2000 and 2007. The images are in black and white, with mm resolution, from which it is possible to extract density and size measurements. The images are stored in the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) format. Added 5th June 2014: zipped datasets (CT-Scan data files of Orange Roughy) have been made publicly available. To view the datasets, download and unzip the files, then copy all contents on a CD, to view the data, use the viewer application PCVCDVW.EXE from the CD in the subdirectory CDVIEWER. Note that the viewer application only runs from a CD.