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
 
Citation proposal Citation proposal
(2020)

Recreational Fish Habitat

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
 

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Identifiers and Keywords

ANZLIC Id
ANZVI0803008673 
Victorian Spatial Data Library (VSDL) Schema
COASTS:REC_FISH_HABITAT 
Jurisdiction
Victoria 
Topic category
  • Oceans
 

Resource Constraints

Use limitation
General 
Classification
Unclassified  
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY)
 

Other Dataset Details

Date ( Revision )
2020-07-21
Date ( Publication )
2020-08-04T01:01:20
Status
Completed  
Supplemental Information
Related Documents: None 
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned  
Maintenance date ( Publication )
2020-08-04T01:01:20
 

Spatial

Spatial representation type
Vector  
Description
General - Victoria 
Reference system identifier
4283

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Temporal

Begin date
2017-08-01 
End date
2017-08-01 
 

Quality

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

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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 
 

Attributes

Column Name Obligation Unique Data Type Data Length Data Precision Data Scale Reference Table Owner Reference Table Name Reference Table Code Column Name Short Column Name Definition
SE_ANNO_CAD_DATA O N BLOB 4000 0 0 SEANNOCAD
SPECIES O N VARCHAR2 30 0 0 SPECIES
HABITAT_TYPE O N VARCHAR2 70 0 0 HABTYPE
 

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Metadata identifier
urn:uuid / 11a03b42-44f4-5c7e-94d8-8d307c05ae93

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Date info ( Creation )
2025-07-14T21:09:58
Date info ( Revision )
2025-11-25T15:03:40
Standard Name
ISO 19115-3:2018 
Profile Name
DELWP Profile 
Profile Version
Version 1 
Profile Date
2019-05-24  
 

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Unclassified  
 
 

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