Bureau of Rural Sciences National commercial fisheries half-degree data set 2000-2002 (OBIS Australia)

Australian national commercial fisheries presence data summarized by half-degree square, year (2000-2002) and species name. Cells with less than 5 boats represented are excluded, as are commercial "taxa" which represent multiple or otherwise unidentified species. The dataset contains 60,445 records representing 390 separate species. Additional summary information including catch weights and gross value product per species per square per year is available via the National Atlas of Commercial Marine Fisheries and Coastal Communities which is accessible from the Bureau of Rural Sciences (BRS) home page, http://www.brs.gov.au