Courageous Cruise 005 Biological Data overview, 1976

This record describes the datasets from Courageous Cruise 005. The data were obtained from the east coast of Tasmania, Bass Strait and Victorian waters in January 1976. Acoustic and trawl surveys for jack mackerel (Trachurus declivis) and other demersal and pelagic fish species, including clupeoids. Other species recorded in trawls included snoek, anchovy, pilchard, mirror dory, hake, flathead, jackass fish, school shark, spur dogfish, silver dory, ling and gilled sharks. Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the cruise summary for this voyage. (derived from the cruise report) - Biological Field Data Sheets recorded during this voyage have been scanned to PDF, and are available (to CSIRO Staff) on-line. See the details link under "Stored Media List" (below).