FV Ocean Dawn ES60 Acoustic Data from Tasmanian West Coast, 2002

38kHz Simrad ES60 acoustic data collected during commercial fishing of spawning blue grenadier off the Tasmanian west coast in 2002. The data was collected by the FV Ocean Dawn as part of an FRDC project and is held by CSIRO Marine Science Acoustic Group. Complementary datasets were collected by vessels FV Aoraki and FV Petersen during the same season.

Use Cases

• Analyze spawning blue grenadier distribution based on acoustic backscatter data.
• Correlate acoustic data with biological observations (species, length, weight, sex, stage).
• Map fishing activity and catch locations using embedded GPS data.
• Study commercial fishing vessel operations using trawl shot log data.

Strengths

• Data includes acoustic, GPS, and biological observations from a specific commercial fishing season.
• Complementary datasets from two other vessels (FV Aoraki and FV Petersen) exist for the same 2002 season.

Limitations

• Cruise dates in the dataset represent a subset of the voyage; actual start/end dates are unknown.
• ES60 history files only; no cruise track or digitised echogram data is available.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

CSIRO Marine Science Acoustic Group (Hobart)

Collection Method

Collected during commercial fishing operations as part of an FRDC project.

Time Range

2002

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-16 15:33:46.409277; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Tasmanian west coast