Pelagic Fish Surveys: Blue Mackerel (Scomber Australasicus) Biological Data - Great Australian Bight (1978-1981)

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

This record is an overview entry for biological data collected on Denebola voyage 2/80, 1/80, Soela and Courageous voyages. This cruise took place in the Great Australian Bight during 1978-1980 under the leadership of John Stevens. Blue Mackerel biological data collected in the Great Australian Bight region include age and growth data, length frequency data, summary of stomach contents. Biological Field Data Sheets recorded during this voyage have been scanned to PDF, and are made available on 13/3/2014 (to CSIRO Staff) on-line. See the details link under "Stored Media List" (below).

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Title Pelagic Fish Surveys: Blue Mackerel (Scomber Australasicus) Biological Data - Great Australian Bight (1978-1981)
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/70cc653d-866a-4faa-af2c-339b6ffa8d95
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/02/1978 - 30/11/1981
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "Pelagic Fish Surveys: Blue Mackerel (Scomber Australasicus) Biological Data - Great Australian Bight (1978-1981)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/pelagic-fish-surveys-blue-mackerel-scomber-australasicus-biological-data-great-austra-1978-19811