Aurora Australis Voyage 6 (AAMBER2) 1990-91 Pelagic Fish Data

This dataset contains the data from Voyage 6 1990-91 of the Aurora Australis. The observations were taken from the Prydz Bay area, Antarctica in January and February 1991. The data contains the results from pelagic fish trawl surveys. The major species were Pleuragramma antarcticum, Channich thyid, Dacodraco hunteri and Neopagetopsis ionah. This is a subset of the data for the whole voyage. The objectives of the fish program were: to assess the distribution and abundance of pelagic fish in the Prydz Bay area; to re-sample bottom fish at sites on the continental shelf previously sampled with a small beam trawl, but using a large atter trawl to check the validity of the beam trawl's samples; to investigate the biology of the more important species. 177 midwater trawls were successfully completed at 59 stations.

A Microsoft Access database containing data from this cruise, plus several others is available for download from the provided URL. The Entry ID's of the other metadata records also related to this data are:

AADC-00038
AADC-00068
AADC-00073
AADC-00075
AADC-00080
AADC-00082
c88_data

The fields in this dataset are:

Cruises
Date
Location
Latitude
Longitude
Species
Gear
Length
Weight
Sex
Gonad
Eye
Otolith
Stomach
Lifestage
Family