Recreational Fish Habitat

dataset: REC_FISH_HABITAT
Scientific review and dataset on developing a criteria for identifying key fish habitat locations and focussed on major Victorian bays and inlets (Port Philip Bay, Western Port, Corner Inlet and Gippsland Lakes). The recreational marine fish species habitat in the dataset are King george whiting, snapper, sand flathead, calamari, black bream and gummy shark. Commissioned by the Victorian Fisheries Authority (VFA) and later digitised by DELWP, the consultancy report was produced by the University of Melbourne. Kalu. Commissioned by VFA. developing criteria for identifying key fish habitat locations
 
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(2020)

Recreational Fish Habitat

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
 

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Description

Title
Recreational Fish Habitat 
Alternate title
REC_FISH_HABITAT 
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Status
Completed  
 
 

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Code
4283 
 
 

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Maintenance and update frequency
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Topic category
  • Oceans
 
 

Resource Constraints

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General 
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Statement
Dataset Source: Commissioned by the Victorian Fisheries Authority (VFA), written by Gregory Jenkins in 2017 and later digitised by DELWP, the consultancy report was produced by the University of Melbourne. Information on the fish habitat reviewed came from peer-reviewed journal papers, scientific technical reports and recreational fishing reports with the mapping undertaken using ArcMap. Dataset Originality: Derived 
 
 

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Quality

Attribute Quality
Comments
All polygon features have been populated for the relevant key recreational fish habitats 
Positional Accuracy
Comments
Positional accuracy of dataset is consistent with the source Vicmap Digital dataset used. 
Conceptual Consistency
Comments
Validation for consistency and completeness for all items. 
Missing Data
Comments
complete Completeness Verification: complete 
Excess Data
Comments
complete 
 
 

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