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Integrated Reef Fish Monitoring Project (IMR)

Created 17/11/2025

Updated 17/11/2025

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The project focuses on monitoring reef fish assemblages in deep-water inter reef areas, inshore nursery grounds and fringing reefs of high continental islands. The surveys will first set monitoring baselines for offshore deep water inter-reefal fish communities beyond safe limits of SCUBA based surveys. Underwater Visual Census survey will occur on 8 island groups using transect based methods (Emslie & Cheal, 2018). Nursery seascapes will be surveyed with RUVS (non-baited BRUVS) and BRUVS to survey fishes various habitats (estuary, mangrove, seagrass, reef flat) in three seascape elements (coastal, inter-reef, and continental island). BRUVS and ROVs will be employed for data acquisition in three nodes, the northern, central and southern GBR. Sampling will be a spatially balanced design among different habitats (e.g. shoals, Halimeda banks, sponge gardens) as well as Marine Park zoning.

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Field Value
Title Integrated Reef Fish Monitoring Project (IMR)
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/cd4798bc-bde1-48dd-a1c3-e9f1c47a0f34
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
reception@aims.gov.au
Reference Period 29/01/2025
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Integrated Reef Fish Monitoring Project (IMR)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/integrated-reef-fish-monitoring-project-imr