Marine National Facility voyage IN2023_V05 collected catch specimens between 27 June and 29 July 2023. Museums Victoria recorded species identification, counts, weights, and linked them to station, location, depth, time, and gear metadata. These data establish a baseline for species composition, abundance, and distribution in southeast Australian waters.
Use Cases
- Assess species composition and biodiversity based on catch records.
- Map species distribution patterns based on latitude and longitude coordinates.
- Analyze catch abundance relative to environmental factors like depth and gear type.
- Establish a temporal baseline for ecosystem change over 25 years as part of the SEA-MES project.
Strengths
- Data is linked to detailed sampling metadata including station number, location, depth, time, and gear type.
- Records provide a baseline for a long-term (25-year) monitoring project (SEA-MES).
- Voyage dates (27 June 2023 to 29 July 2023) and ports (Hobart) are explicitly documented.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
- Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to a single voyage in the southeast Australian region.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network via the Marine National Facility.
- Collection Method
- Specimens collected by Museums Victoria during the RV Investigator research voyage.
- Time Range
- 27 June 2023 to 29 July 2023 (AEST).
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-17 00:29:14.662089; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Southeast Australian marine ecosystem, voyage departed from and returned to Hobart.