Historical Fishing Records for the Pilbra region of the Northwest Shelf

Name: Historical Fishing Records for the Pilbra region of the Northwest Shelf
Published: 2008-06-05
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Updated: 2008-06-05

This is a historical data set containing a recored of all types of fish caught in the Pilbara region of the Australian Northwest shelf since the 1960's. The data was source from both domestic and foreign fishers. It was transcribed from the fishers paper logbooks and contains catch (type, weight, date, location) and effort (number of boat days).