TemperateReefBase Geonetwork Catalogue
Macquarie Island Fisheries, 1994-1995
This dataset contains the results from an investigation of the fishery off Macquarie Island. The data were obtained from the Austral Leader, an 85m long stern trawler, between December 1994 and February 1995. The aim of the fishing voyage was to determine whether sufficient catches could be made to enable dedicated voyages to the area to be profitable, and if time allowed to search for other fishable areas. The Austral Leader had been granted a licence by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) to fish in Commonwealth controlled waters within the Australian EEZ around Macquarie Island. A previous voyage in November-December 1994 had made a preliminary survey of the grounds surrounding the island. 59 tows were made in the vicinity of the island, and all but 10 were made in an area west of the island. No worthwhile catches were made in any other areas. The main species caught were the Patagonian Toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) and Rats Tails (Macrourus carinatus). Basic biological data were collected on the catches where possible including: standard and total length, sex, gonad maturity, and stomach contents.
A Microsoft Access database containing data from this cruise, plus several others is available for download from the URL given below. The Entry ID's of the other metadata records also related to this data are:
AADC-00038
AADC-00068
AADC-00073
AADC-00075
AADC-00080
AADC-00082
c88_data
The fields in this dataset are:
Cruises
Date
Location
Latitude
Longitude
Species
Gear
Length
Weight
Sex
Gonad
Eye
Otolith
Stomach
Lifestage
Family
Simple
Identification info
- Alternate title
- Macquarie Island Fisheries, 1994-1995
- Date (Publication)
- 1999-10-07
- Edition
- 1
Originator
Publisher
Principal investigator
Collaborator
- Name
- CAASM Metadata
- Status
- Completed
Custodian
- Topic category
-
- Biota
- Oceans
Extent
))
Extent
- Description
- Temporal Coverage
Temporal extent
- TimePeriod
- 1994-12-28 1995-02-16
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > AQUATIC SCIENCES > FISHERIES
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > FISH
- Keywords
-
- Cruises
- Date
- Location
- Latitude
- Longitude
- Species
- Gear
- Length
- Weight
- Sex
- Gonad
- Eye
- Otolith
- Stomach
- Lifestage
- Family
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- TRAWL
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- SHIPS
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- AMD/AU
- CEOS
- AMD
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- This metadata record is publicly available.
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- Access to the data is via the parent metadata record.
Resource constraints
- File type
- Portable Network Graphic
- Title
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Website
-
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Legal code for Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 International license
- Use constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=AADC-00068 when using these data.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
-
EXTENDED METADATA
Parent metadata record containing a link to the compiled dataset
- OnLine resource
-
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Please see the provided reference for more details. Three or four of the five catches taken per day were sampled. For each catch, at least 20 randomly selected fish were measured for standard and total length, sex, gonad maturity and stomach content. A total of 3434 fish were measured, and both day and night catches were sampled. Scales and otoliths for further use in ageing the fish were collected when time allowed.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
- 2014-09-08 - record updated by Dave Connell. 2017-03-21 - record updated by Dave Connell to add a parent ID and remove the data link.
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- string/AADC-00068
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Author
Sponsor
Owner
- Title
- Parent Metadata Record
- Citation identifier
- Historical_Fish_data
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 323e6d6e-c58e-4857-9906-a32c7cf55a15
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Date (Last Revision)
- 2015-04-08T11:17:04
Identifier
- Description
- metadata.extraction_date
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 8.6
- Metadata linkage
-
http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AADC-00068
Point of truth for the metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 1999-10-07T00:00:00
- Date info (Last Update)
- 2017-03-21
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3
- Edition
- 2014
- Other citation details
- Version 1
- Title
- DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
Overviews
Spatial extent
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