Data Trawler - Survey Details

SS 01/93 (alternative identifier: SS199301)

Period: 1993-01-11 00:00 to 1993-02-12 00:00 UTC

Duration: 32.00 days

From: Townsville To: Darwin

Region: N Queensland, Gulf of Carpentaria

Ship: Southern Surveyor [details]

Description: Southern Surveyor cruise SS 01/93 was undertaken to carry out a fish survey, and benthic sampling in the areas of the far northern zone of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and the northern Gulf of Carpentaria fishing zone and to also carry out net comparisons in the western Torres Strait and west of Albatross Bay. Cruise objectives included to determine the species composition and abundance of the fish community; investigate the fish habitat by characterising the benthic flora and fauna; obtain images of the bottom structure with a video camera; collect hydrological data; collect seabird data; to compare the relative impact of fish trawl nets on the bottom structure; survey the abundance of commercial species of lutjanids and lethrinids; collect samples of Lutjanus malabaricus and L. sebae for population genetics studies; collect specimens for the I. S. R. Munro Fish collection in Hobart and to collect cephalopods (Museum of Victoria and QDPIF).

Leader: J. Salini (CSIRO)

Project: The fish resources of tropical north-eastern Australian waters (FIRDC project no. 88/77) 1989-1992 [details]

Marlin Metadata:-

Ageing data on tropical snapper from the Gulf of Carpentaria 1990 - 1993 [details]

Consolidated Red Snapper biological data and juvenile fish morphometric data from various surveys across Northern Australia and Eastern Indonesia 1999 - 2003 [details]

Gulf of Carpentaria Fish Data 1990-1993 [details]

North Marine Region demersal fish and invertebrate collection records (DEW collation) [details]

North Marine Region syngnathid collection records (DEW collation) [details]

Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 01/93 Biological Data Overview [details]

Metadata from OBIS Australia datasets:- biological data is published via the OBIS-AU IPT server and delivered to one or more of OBIS, ALA and GBIF

Participants - on ship:-

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Marine National Facility Reports - plans, summaries and data processing

• SS199301 Voyage Summary - includes preliminary results, voyage narrative, types of data collected with C77/ROSCOP codes.

• SS199301 Voyage Plan - includes objectives, investigator details, proposed data collection, voyage track and equipment to be used.

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Publications, reports and datasets from this voyage.

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