AIMS Geonetwork
Assessing the effects of changes in Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Zoning plans on southern mid-shelf shoals (MTSRF Project 4.8.2)
Surveys were undertaken in February/March 2007 (Autumn), August/September 2007 (Spring) and October 2009 (Spring) on two pairs of discrete deepwater shoals in the mid-shelf section of the southern Great Barrier Reef. The objective was to find pairs of shoals that were matched in terms of depth, habitat, areal extent, cross shelf position and latitude. Within each pair, one shoal was to be from a 'green zone' (closed to all fishing) and the other from a 'blue zone' (open to fishing), based on the rezoning of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, carried out in 2004. The pairs of reefs chosen were: East Warregos (green) and West Warregos (blue); Barcoo Bank (green) and Karamea Bank (blue). The bathymetry of each shoal was surveyed in detail by multibeam acoustic swathe mapping prior to sampling of fish and benthic habitat. A lightweight towed video system developed by AIMS was used to survey seabed habitats on and around the four shoal sites over the first two trips.Baited Remote Underwater Video Stations (BRUVS (TM)) were used to sample the fish communities on each shoal on all three cruises.
This study was undertaken to describe the fish fauna in relation to habitat and spatial and temporal variables on selected deep shoals of the southern region of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
This is one component in a series of surveys conducted as part of this MTSRF project, see also separate metadata records on:Reef base shoals (Capricorn-Bunker, Pompey and Swains Groups) Shoals off Cardwell Shoals off Cairns Magnetic Shoals (Townsville)
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-10-17T00:00:00
Publisher
Owner
- Website
- AIMS Web Site
- Website
- AIMS Web Site
- Credit
- Doherty, Peter J, Dr (Principal Investigator)
- Credit
- Cappo, Michael (Point Of Contact)
- Status
- Completed
Principal investigator
Point of contact
- Temporal resolution
-
P1Y0M0DT0H0M0S
- Topic category
-
- Oceans
Extent
- Description
- Region 1
))
Extent
- Description
- Collective resources start and end dates
Temporal extent
- Time position
- 2007-02-03
- Time position
- 2009-11-13
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- All AIMS data, products and services are provided "as is" and AIMS does not warrant their fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. While AIMS has made every reasonable effort to ensure high quality of the data, products and services, to the extent permitted by law the data, products and services are provided without any warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of title, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. AIMS make no representation or warranty that the data, products and services are accurate, complete, reliable or current. To the extent permitted by law, AIMS exclude all liability to any person arising directly or indirectly from the use of the data, products and services.
- Access constraints
- Restricted
- Other constraints
- The data was collected under contract between AIMS and another party(s). Specific agreements for access and use of the data shall be negotiated separately. Contact the AIMS Data Centre (adc@aims.gov.au) for further information
- Other constraints
- Resource Usage:The data is under exclusive access period. Contact AIMS for possible access to the data within this period.Access Constraint: restrictedSecurity classification code: unclassifiedMetadata Usage:Security classification code: unclassified
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Content Information
- Content type
- Physical measurement
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
-
Influence of zoning on midshelf shoals from the southern Great Barrier Reef. Report to the Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility: Stowar MJ, De'ath AG, Doherty PJ, Johansson C, Speare PJ and Venables W (2008) Influence of zoning on midshelf shoals from the southern Great Barrier Reef. Report to the Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre and Australian Institute of Marine Science. 90 p.
Influence of zoning on midshelf shoals from the southern Great Barrier Reef. Report to the Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility: Stowar MJ, De'ath AG, Doherty PJ, Johansson C, Speare PJ and Venables W (2008) Influence of zoning on midshelf shoals from the southern Great Barrier Reef. Report to the Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre and Australian Institute of Marine Science. 90 p.
- OnLine resource
-
MTSRF Project 4.8.2 - link to project page
MTSRF Project 4.8.2 - link to project page
- OnLine resource
-
The influence of zoning (closure to fishing) on fish communities of the deep shoals and reef bases of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Result of repeated surveys of the southern bank and Cardwell shoals, and an overview with regional comparisons: Cappo MC, Stowar MJ and MacNeil MA (2010) The influence of zoning (closure to fishing) on fish communities of the deep shoals and reef bases of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Result of repeated surveys of the southern bank and Cardwell shoals, and an overview with regional comparisons. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre. 63 p.
The influence of zoning (closure to fishing) on fish communities of the deep shoals and reef bases of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Result of repeated surveys of the southern bank and Cardwell shoals, and an overview with regional comparisons: Cappo MC, Stowar MJ and MacNeil MA (2010) The influence of zoning (closure to fishing) on fish communities of the deep shoals and reef bases of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Result of repeated surveys of the southern bank and Cardwell shoals, and an overview with regional comparisons. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre. 63 p.
- OnLine resource
-
The influence of zoning (closure to fishing) on fish communities of the deep shoals and reef bases of the southern Great Barrier Reef. Part 2 - Development of protocols to improve accuracy in baited video techniques used to detect effects of zoning: Cappo MC, De'ath AG, Stowar MJ, Johannson C and Doherty PJ (2009) The influence of zoning (closure to fishing) on fish communities of the deep shoals and reef bases of the southern Great Barrier Reef. Part 2 - Development of protocols to improve accuracy in baited video techniques used to detect effects of zoning. MTSRF Research Report No. 38 ISBN 9781921359378. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre and Australian Institute of Marine Science. 44 p.
The influence of zoning (closure to fishing) on fish communities of the deep shoals and reef bases of the southern Great Barrier Reef. Part 2 - Development of protocols to improve accuracy in baited video techniques used to detect effects of zoning: Cappo MC, De'ath AG, Stowar MJ, Johannson C and Doherty PJ (2009) The influence of zoning (closure to fishing) on fish communities of the deep shoals and reef bases of the southern Great Barrier Reef. Part 2 - Development of protocols to improve accuracy in baited video techniques used to detect effects of zoning. MTSRF Research Report No. 38 ISBN 9781921359378. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre and Australian Institute of Marine Science. 44 p.
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Statement: Fish, sharks, rays and seasnakes were included as 'fish'.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- f7d7c654-a5a3-436c-9352-f89377f83832
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
- Hours of service
- 0800 to 1640 UTC+10: Monday to Friday
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
-
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2012-10-17T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2023-03-07T00:00:00
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
Overviews
Spatial extent
Provided by
