Sea Around Us Project - Relative demersal fish abundance inferred from commercial catch data, northwestern Australia (1997-2006)

This dataset describes the relative abundance of an assemblage of commercially exploited demersal fishes in northwestern Australia, mapped over a 30 arc-minute (0.5 degree) spatial grid. The data cover the period 1997-2006 and are derived from an analysis of commercial landings available through the Sea Around Us Project (http://www.seaaroundus.org/). Further methodological details can be found in the following peer-reviewed publication, which applies the same analysis to a suite of mobile pelagic species: Bouchet PJ, Meeuwig JJ, Huang Z, Letessier TB, Nichol SL, Caley MJ, Watson RA. 2016. Continental-scale hotspots of pelagic fish abundance inferred from commercial catch records. Global Ecology and Biogeography.

Below is a full list of species/genera/families considered, with their respective contributions to the total catch (%):
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Mustelus -- 26.1948%
Platycephalidae -- 23.3191%
Seriolella -- 10.8968%
Sillaginidae -- 9.4242%
Genypterus blacodes -- 5.8347%
Pristiophorus -- 4.4934%
Tetraodontidae -- 4.3235%
Nemadactylus -- 4.2784%
Squatinidae -- 3.6071%
Mugilidae -- 3.181%
Sparidae -- 2.7037%
Chelidonichthys kumu -- 0.7146%
Rajiformes -- 0.4497%
Pterygotrigla polyommata -- 0.3911%
Scorpaenidae -- 0.1292%
Callorhinchus milii -- 0.0367%
Rhombosolea -- 0.0046%
Pleuronectiformes -- 0.0034%
Leiognathidae -- 0.003%
Lates calcarifer -- 0.0029%
Ariidae -- 0.0025%
Sciaenidae -- 0.0017%
Nemipteridae -- 0.0014%
Nemipterus -- 0.0014%
Upeneus -- 0.001%

Data will be attached to this record once analyses are completed, est. December 2016.