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Fishing Effort Maps Based on Commercial Fishing Logbook Data - Victoria 2011-2015

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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This data contains summaries of Victorian Fisheries Authority logbook data on effort distribution for VIC commercial fisheries in state marine and estuarine waters. The logbook data has been recorded and submitted to Victorian Fisheries Authority by commercial fishers. The data are aggregated to produce summaries of total effort by gear type (summarised across fishery), over 5 year periods and at a 0.1 degree resolution where 5 boats or more operate. All effort information has been removed for areas where less than 5 boats operate and these areas are mapped to a 1 degree resolution. The 5 year period (2011-2015) corresponds to State of Environment (SoE) Reporting, required under the EPBC Act 1999. Each map layer is labelled by the years aggregated (“2015” for 2011-2015) and the gear type (“HG” = Hand Gathering). The gear codes and aggregated fisheries and the shape file field descriptions are listed below. Field descriptions for shapefiles and effort units: Areacode Areasqm GRidSet_ID: Extract: extract date Source: VIC VFA Method: Gear type Period: Time Period Hours: Number of Hours of Effort CSQ: C-Squares code. 1 degree and 0.1 degree grids used Total Effort for each gear type Fishery and Gear Aggregations: GEAR_GROUP GEARS HL: Hand line, LLDL: longline dropline, MN: Mesh Net, Purse Seine Seine Net Trap Pot: (Trap, Pot, DropNet, HoopNet), TW_DS: (Trawl, Danish Seine). RL _Trap Pot: Rock lobster Trap Pot

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Title Fishing Effort Maps Based on Commercial Fishing Logbook Data - Victoria 2011-2015
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/7a11d57e-9e58-4e19-b35a-b2c7503bd53e
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Piers.Dunstan@csiro.au
Reference Period 23/03/2021
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
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      ],
      [
        150.65918684,
        -40.64730356
      ],
      [
        150.65918684,
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      ],
      [
        140.99121809,
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      ],
      [
        140.99121809,
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      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "Fishing Effort Maps Based on Commercial Fishing Logbook Data - Victoria 2011-2015". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/fishing-effort-maps-based-on-commercial-fishing-logbook-data-victoria-2011-2015