Heard Island and McDonald Islands Fisheries Sectors

• Other Authors: AADC (originator), AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia (resourceProvider)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
• Subjects: oceans; FISHERIES; EARTH SCIENCE; AQUATIC SCIENCES; Fishing; AMD/AU; AMD; CEOS; SOOS; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Antarctic; Heard; Heard Island; McDonald Islands; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Australian Antarctic Division
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/heard-island-mcdonald-fisheries-sectors/685219; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/HIMI_Fisheries_Sectors; http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/portal/download_file.cfm?file_id=4572; https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=HIMI_Fisheries_Sectors

Data used in creation of the Fisheries sector areas: 1 The limit of the Exclusive Economic Zone from 'Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 - Australian Maritime Boundaries 2014a - Geodatabase' published by Geoscience Australia: http://www.ga.gov.au/metadata-gateway/metadata/record/gcat_83170 2 The boundaries of the Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve from 'Australia's network of Commonwealth Marine Reserves' published by Australian Government Department of the Environment, 2014: http://www.environment.gov.au/fed/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=%7B2E8DD19C-1B93-4D90-BD1C-128DDC4A2998%7D 3 The CCAMLR Statistical Reporting Area boundaries created from the description given at the CCAMLR website: http://www.ccamlr.org/en/organisation/convention-area 4 Lines created by Dick Williams. The polygon areas were calculated using a Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection centred at 73 degrees 20 minutes E 53 degrees 30 minutes S. This dataset covers the area of the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) around Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI). The Fisheries sector areas were originally created by Dick Williams, former Fisheries biologist at the Australian Antarctic Division for the HIMI fishery, to define areas of research fishing for the first longline vessels to fish at HIMI in 2003 and 2004. This dataset consists of a polygon shapefile representing the sector areas and a map displaying the sector areas. Each polygon has the attributes polygon number and area in square kilometres. The dataset was created in December 2015 using current boundaries as listed in the Quality section of this record. The Fisheries sector areas will be used to direct fishing to areas of research interest in the future.