Munro Prawn Surveys - Fish Records - SE Gulf of Carpentaria 1963-1965

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

This dataset series comprises fish species composition data collected during the survey conducted jointly by the Queensland State and Commonwealth Governments during 1963-1965 to examine the prawn resources of the south-eastern corner of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Aubrey Harris retrieved the data from Rainer and Munro c.1984 - and it was used by Aubrey Harris and Ian Poiner for analysis for their paper (Harris, A. N. M. and Poiner, I. R. (1991)).

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title Munro Prawn Surveys - Fish Records - SE Gulf of Carpentaria 1963-1965
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/28c0a42a-86ca-4acc-96d9-1bf4dfe4279c
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Margaret.Miller@csiro.au
Reference Period 29/07/1963 - 22/02/1965
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal CSIRO Marlin

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "Munro Prawn Surveys - Fish Records - SE Gulf of Carpentaria 1963-1965". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/munro-prawn-surveys-fish-records-se-gulf-of-carpentaria-1963-1965