The Southwestern Pacific Regional OBIS Node

NIWA's (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research - New Zealand)
MBIS (Marine Biodata Information System) database is a data warehouse of marine
data that is used, among other things, to serve South West Pacific (including
New Zealand, part of the Southern Ocean and the Ross Sea) regional marine data
to OBIS, and to serve the South West Pacific Regional OBIS Node data. The
dataset is, and will continue to be a work in progress because new data are
continually being added as they are discovered, provided, integrated or
created.

The Southwestern Pacific Regional OBIS Node currently contains data that are
primarily the results of a series of research trawl surveys carried out as part
of New Zealand's MFish (Ministry of Fisheries) data collection to support
fisheries management within the NZ EEZ (New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone),
plus data from several decades of marine invertebrate research sampling in the
NZ EEZ. It also contains presence data for coralline algae around the New
Zealand coast.

The South Western Pacific data accessible to OBIS via this RON will eventually
cover an area from Antarctica to Fiji, and from the mid Tasman Sea to the
mid-Pacific Ocean.