Estuarine fish in the Rewa River estuary, Viti Levu, Fiji 2012

Kelly Brown1, Ainsof  So'o2

1 The School of Marine Studies, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji; 2 SPREP, Apia, Samoa

Corresponding author(s): Kelly Brown (kelly.brown@usp.ac.fj )

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Resource Citation

Brown K (2018): Estuarine fish in the Rewa River estuary, Viti Levu, Fiji 2012. v1.2. The University of the South Pacific - School of Marine Studies. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.sprep.org/resource?r=usp_esturine_fish_2012_brown&v=1.2

Abstract

This dataset comprises bycatch data from a shark sampling research project in the Rewa River Estuary on the island of Viti Levu in Fiji. A 100 meter gillnet comprising 3-, 3.5- and 4-inch nylon monofilament mesh sizes was used to capture fish. Gillnet soak times were either 1 or 2 hours, and dependent on prevailing sea and weather conditions. All net deployments began at 1700hrs. 

This dataset is part of the results of research by a Master of Science student at the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Suva, Fiji. The research was funded in part by the SciCOFish programme of the Pacific Community, and the Faculty Research Committee of the Faculty of Science, Technology and Environment (FSTE) at USP. 
Publication of this dataset was funded by the European Union (EU). We are also grateful to GBIF, BID and VertNet for their support in mobilising this dataset.

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation

Project details

Project title: Capacity building and data mobilization for conservation and decision-making in the South Pacific
Personnel: Kelly Brown
Funding: Data prepared and published under project "Capacity building and data mobilization for conservation and decision making in the South Pacific" - BID-PA2016-0002-REG. 

Research funding was provided in part by the SciCOFish Programme of the Pacific Community, and the Faculty Research Committee of the Faculty of Science, Technology and Environment at the University of the South Pacific (USP). 

The Master of Science degree programme was funded by the USP Research Office Graduate Assistant Scholarship. 

The John and Dave Foundation provided technical support for data publication.
Study area descriptions/descriptor: The Rewa River estuary, island of Viti Levu, Fiji.

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.sprep.org/resource?r=usp_esturine_fish_2012_brown

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: All species belong to the Class Actinopterygii from 4 Orders: Elopiformes, Perciformes, Clupeiformes, Tetraodontiformes .
Taxonomic ranks
Species: Arothron reticularis, Caranx ignobilis, Caranx sexfasicatus, Chirocentrus dorab, Lactarius lactarius, Leiognathus equulus, Lutjanus argentimaculatus, Lutjanus bohar, Megalops cyprinoides, Mene maculata, Mesopristes kneri, Monodactylus argenteus, Mugil cephalus, Polydactylus plebeius, Rastrelliger kanagurta, Terapon jarbua, Trichiurus lepturus

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The Rewa River Estuary, island of Viti Levu, Fiji,
Coordinates: 18°10'21.37''S and 18°8'59.16''S Latitude; 178°31'42.67''E and 178°33'19.07''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: February 23, 2012 - June 1, 2012

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Estuarine fish in the Rewa River estuary, Viti Levu, Fiji 2012
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.sprep.org/archive.do?r=usp_esturine_fish_2012_brown
Publication date of data: 2018-07-30
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-06-21
Hierarchy level: Dataset