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trawl: Trawl data from the Great Barrier Reef

Description

These data refer to a survey of the fauna on the sea bed lying between the coast of northern Queensland and the Great Barrier Reef. The sampling region covered a zone which was closed to commercial fishing, as well as neighbouring zones where fishing was permitted.

The variables are:

Zone
an indicator for the closed (1) and open (0) zones
Year
an indicator of 1992 (0) or 1993 (1)
Latitude
latitude of the sampling position
Longitude
longitude of the sampling position
Depth
bottom depth
Score1
catch score 1

The details of the survey and an analysis of the data are provided by Poiner et al. (1997), The effects of prawn trawling in the far northern section of the Great Barrier Reef, CSIRO Division of Marine Research, Queensland Dept. of Primary Industries.

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