Name: Whale catches in the Southern Ocean
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Season whale catch records for austral summers from 1931/32 to 1979/80. Data has been aggregated into one degree cells centered on the reported position. Covers five whale species - Blue, Fin, Sei, Minke and Humpback.

Citation

Australian Antarctic Data Centre (2018). Whale catches in the Southern Ocean.

Published

May 12, 2021 at 00:45

First registration

June 24, 2020 at 14:59

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

URL

https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/resource?r=sp_whales

Archive

https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/archive.do?r=sp_whales

Contacts

Mike Double
Australian Antarctic Division

DATA OFFICER AADC
Australian Antarctic Division

Johnathan Kool

7,122

total submitted occurrences

7,122

accepted occurrences

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters	7,122		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	7,122		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		7,122	100.0%

Whale catches in the Southern Ocean

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data