Scooter Assisted Large Area Diver-based (SALAD) surveys to assess size and abundance of crown-of-thorns starfish in northern GBR (JCU)

This dataset records Scooter Assisted Large Area Diver-based (SALAD) surveys of Crown of Thorns Starfish (CoTS) in the northern Great Barrier Reef from 2019 - 2025. Using scooters allows large coral reef areas to be surveyed, while allowing divers to slow down and spend more time to locate cryptic CoTS where scars on coral are visible. This dataset records the density of CoTS over the survey tracks and size measurements of individual CoTS.