Aurora Australis Voyage 1 (THIRST) 1993-94 Demersal Fish Data

This dataset contains the data from Voyage 1 1993-94 of the Aurora Australis. The observations were taken from around Heard Island between August and September 1993. The data contains temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen and nutrient data from a CTD survey and the results from various pelagic fish trawl surveys. The major species were Champsocephalus gunnari, Champsocephalus rhinoceratus, Lepidonotoften squamifrons and Dissostichus eleginoides. Numbers, species identity, guts and gonad data were obtained. This is a subset of the data for the whole voyage.

A Microsoft Access database containing data from this cruise, plus several others is available for download from the provided URL. The Entry ID's of the other metadata records also related to this data are:

AADC-00038 AADC-00068 AADC-00073 AADC-00075 AADC-00080 AADC-00082 c88_data

The fields in this dataset are:

Cruises Date Location Latitude Longitude Species Gear Length Weight Sex Gonad Eye Otolith Stomach Lifestage Family