Dataset

New Zealand fish and squid distributions from research bottom trawls 1964-2008

SWP OBIS Open in mapper Explore occurrences

From 1997 to 2008, a research programme to determine if fish assemblages in the New Zealand region could be classified into clearly identifiable communities based on their associations with each other and with environmental features was undertaken. This dataset is taken from the resulting fish communities database. These data have been used to show geographical and depth distributions of species from all research tows within the New Zealand EEZ since 2008.

Citation: NIWA (2014). New Zealand fish and squid distributions from research bottom trawls. Southwestern Pacific OBIS, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, New Zealand, 486781 records, Online http://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource.do?r=obisprovider released on May 8, 2014.

Published: February 14, 2020 at 08:11

URL: https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=obisprovider

Kevin Mackay
NIWA

495,600
occurrence records
787
taxa
549
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters 33,661
6.8%
minimumDepthInMeters 34,231
6.9%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 33,313
6.7%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 24,081
4.9%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 638
0.1%
ON_LAND 229
0.0%
MARINE_UNSURE 28
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data