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Name Licence Record count
Foreign vessel commercial trawl records from the North West Shelf, Australia (1979-1985) CC-BY This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. 29,656
CSIRO, North West Shelf Demersal Marine Resources Study 1980-1997 CC-BY This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. 3,407
iNaturalist Australia 2,531
Reef Life Survey: Global reef fish dataset CC-BY Please also cite the associated data paper when using this data: Edgar, GJ and Stuart-Smith, RD, “Systematic global assessment of reef fish communities by the Reef Life Survey program”, Scientific Data, 1 Article 140007. doi:10.1038/sdata.2014.7 ISSN 2052-4463 (2014) The data described in this record are the intellectual property of the Reef Life Survey Foundation Inc. and is managed by the University of Tasmania through the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania. 1,637
IMOS - Animal Tracking Facility - Acoustic Tracking - Quality Controlled Detections (2007 -2021) CC-BY This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. 1,493
Pilbara Marine Conservation Partnership BRUVS data, Australia (2014 - 2015) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 1,104
Australian Museum provider for OZCAM Creative Commons Attribution (Australia) (CC-BY 3.0 (Au)) Australian Museum,https://australian.museum/ Creative Commons Attribution (Australia) (CC-BY 3.0 (Au) 3.0) 1,048
Queensland Museum provider for OZCAM CC-BY 794
Catch composition and measurement records from trawling, RV Investigator voyage IN2017_V05, North West Shelf, Australia (2017) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 564
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) - Baited Remote Underwater Video Station (BRUVS), Australia (1999 to present) CC-BY This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. 559
CSIRO, Cruises, Vertebrate and Invertebrate Fishery Bycatch, North Australia, 1997 CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 479
CSIRO, Soviet Fishery Data, Australia, 1965-1978 CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 476
Western Australian Museum provider for OZCAM Creative Commons Attribution (International) (CC-BY 4.0 (Int)) Western Australian Museum, http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/ 465
BRUVS observations at Ningaloo Marine Park, Western Australia (2019) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 403
Reef Life Survey: Cryptic Fish CC-BY Please also cite the associated data paper when using this data: Edgar, GJ and Stuart-Smith, RD, “Systematic global assessment of reef fish communities by the Reef Life Survey program”, Scientific Data, 1 Article 140007. doi:10.1038/sdata.2014.7 ISSN 2052-4463 (2014) The data described in this record are the intellectual property of the Reef Life Survey Foundation Inc. and is managed by the University of Tasmania through the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania. 382
Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM Creative Commons Attribution (Australia) (CC-BY 3.0 (Au)) 369
North Marine Region demersal fish and invertebrate collection records (DEW collation), Australia (1980 - 1997) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 317
Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) CC-BY This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. 293
WAMSI Node 3.1.1b and 3.2.2 - Ecosystem Effects of Fishing: finescale coral reef fish surveys Ningaloo Reef, Australia (2006) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 292
AIMS, Long-Term Fish Visual Census, Great Barrier Reef, Northeast Australia, 1992-2015 CC-BY-Int This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. 236
Stereo-BRUVs and BOSS observations in the Ningaloo Marine Park, Western Australia (2021-2022) CC-BY This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. 197
CSIRO, fish surveys by the Courageous, 1978-1979 CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 154
BRUVS data from Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs, Tasman Sea, Australia (2020) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 148
Lizard Island Research Station CC-BY http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 141
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) Long-term Monitoring Program: Visual Census Fish Data (Great Barrier Reef), Australia (1992 to present) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 96
International Barcode of Life project (iBOL) CC BY 91
CSIRO - Great Barrier Reef seabed biodiversity study 2003-2006 CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 86
Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM CC-BY 85
NMNH Extant Specimen Records (USNM, US) Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 84
Earth Guardians Weekly Feed Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (International) (CC-BY-NC 4.0 (Int)) 84
Diveboard - Scuba diving citizen science observations CC BY-NC 67
Fish and invertebrate communities show greater day and night partitioning on tropical than temperate reefs from visual census surveys, Australia (2020-2023) CC-BY This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License. 64
eDNA metabarcoding survey of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Indian Ocean (2017) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 54
eDNA metabarcoding survey of tropical northwestern Australia, Indian Ocean (2017-2018) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 51
Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 03/2005 Prawn Trawl Samples, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia (2005) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 45
Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 10/95 survey in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia (Nov 1995) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 43
Stereo BRUVS survey of the Money Shoal and Pillar Bank, Arafura Marine Park, Australia (2020) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 42
CSIRO, fish surveys by the Soela, 1980s CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 42
Australian National Fish Collection Images Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (Australia) (CC-BY-NC 3.0 (Aus)) 42
Dredge, trawl and bycatch records from the northern section of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia (1991-1996) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 37
North Western Australia Mesopredators CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 37
Natural History Museum (London) Collection Specimens Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 36
South Australian Museum Adelaide provider for OZCAM CC-BY 33
FishBase Database CC BY-NC 28
Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 02/95 prawn survey in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia (Feb-Mar 1995) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 28
CSIRO, Fish Survey, Albatross Bay - Gulf of Capentaria, North Australia, 1986-1988 CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 26
The Ichthyology Collection at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart CC BY 25
Ashmore Reef Marine Park Environmental Assessment 2019 - marine fauna survey CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 25
ALA species sightings and OzAtlas CC-BY 23
Reef Life Survey Images CC-BY-NC 22
Ecological surveys using BRUVS within the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf Marine Park, Northern Territory, Australia (2020-2021) CC-BY This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. 20
BOLD - Australian records CC-BY-Int 19
Gaia Guide Creative Commons Attribution (International) (CC-BY 3.0 (Int)) 19
Ichthyology Collection - Royal Ontario Museum CC BY-NC 18
Encyclopedia of Life Images - Flickr Group Creative Commons - license at record level (Creative Commons - license at record level) 17
The fishes collection (IC) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris) CC BY 17
Academy of Natural Sciences Ichthyology Collection CC BY-NC 16
Fish collection of National Museum of Nature and Science CC BY 15
Surveys of benthic organisms, reef fishes and manta tow surveys of Capricorn Bunker reefs in October 2015 (NESP TWQ 3.7, AIMS) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 14
Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 05/95 prawn survey in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia (Jun 1995) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 13
European Molecular Biology Laboratory Australian Mirror CC-BY-Int The public databases of the EBI are freely available by any individual and for any purpose. For details see http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Information/termsofuse.html 13
Stereo-BRUVS observations from eight sites along the Western Australian coast, Australia (2007-2008) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 9
CAS Ichthyology (ICH) Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 9
eDNA Sampling of Deep-Sea Fish Assemblages, Gascoyne Marine Park, Western Australia (2022) CC-BY This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License. 9
Marine Commercial Fish Survey (FV Kapala, FV Trader Horn, FV Shelley, FV Kirrawa, FV May Bell) in the East and South East Australian Region from 1975 to 2008 CC-BY This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. 8
Reef shark prey abundances from 46 sites in the Solomon Islands (2015) CC-BY This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. 6
Ocean Genome Legacy Collection CC BY 5
WEST CAPE YORK MARINE PARK (WCYMP). Fish surveys of Carpentaria and Merkara Shoals,10 – 20 November 2022 Creative Commons Attribution (International) (CC-BY 4.0 (Int)) This research was undertaken by the Australian Institute of Marine Science in collaboration with Parks Australia Wakeford M., Birt M, Harries S, Colquhoun J, Jaworski S, Case M (2024). West Cape York Marine Park, Carpentaria and Merkara Shoals biodiversity surveys, Trip 7888, 10 - 20 November 2022. Final Report – June 2024. Report prepared for Parks Australia. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Perth. (52 pp). 4
West Australian Marine Science Institute Node 4.2 BRUVS deployments (2008-2010) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 4
Maximising fish detection with eDNA metabarcoding Creative Commons Attribution (Australia) (CC-BY 3.0 (Au)) 4
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) - CReefs Ningaloo Reef Biodiversity Expedition, Australia (2008 - 2010) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 4
Fatty acid profiles of marine consumer from the Southern Hemisphere (1990-2018) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 4
Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Fish Collection Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 4
Biodiversity Characterisation of Pilbara Marine Regions (Epibenthic Sled, Trawl, Towed Video and Sediment), Australia (2013) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 4
Bernice P. Bishop Museum Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 3
Central Great Barrier Reef shark nursery area survey (NERP TE 6.2, JCU), Australia (2011-2014) CC-BY This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. 3
LACM Vertebrate Collection Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 2
Australian Museum Factsheets CC-BY-NC-Aus http://australianmuseum.net.au/copyright 2
BRUVS data conducted in the Northern Demersal Scalefish Fishery (NDSF) north of Broome off the coast of north western Autralia (2007) CC-BY This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. 2
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Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University CC BY-NC 1
WildNet - Queensland Wildlife Data Creative Commons Attribution (International) (CC-BY 4.0 (Int)) 1
NSW BioNet Atlas Creative Commons Attribution (International) (CC-BY 4.0 (Int)) 1
RBINS DaRWIN CC BY-NC 1
NORFANZ Biological Survey, Tasman Sea, Australia - New Zealand 2003 CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 1
Ecosystem biomonitoring with eDNA: metabarcoding across the tree of life in a tropical marine environment Creative Commons Attribution (International) (CC-BY 4.0 (Int)) 1
Marine Education Society of Australasia CC-BY 1