Project number: 1995-167
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $212,676.00
Principal Investigator: Malcolm Dunning
Organisation: Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
Project start/end date: 28 Jun 1996 - 30 Jun 2001
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. In collaboration with major users, to establish a spatial information system (GIS) to integrate existing diverse fisheries habitat and marine and relevant estuarine environmental data sets ( including tidal vegetation, "critical" habitats, protected area and closed waters boundaries) with baseline cadastral and topographic / bathymetric data held by government agencies (including relevant historical coastal development site impact information) to allow monitoring of the condition and trend of coastal fisheries habitats.
2. To establish appropriate data exchange links to the Queensland Fisheries Management Authority’s QFISH information system (commercial and recreational catch and effort data) and to other QDPI land resources information systems to facilitate modelling of habitat - fisheries resources interactions under various change scenarios.
3. To develop appropriate user interfaces and establish appropriate network links to the system to allow rapid access Statewide and from interstate / internationally by fisheries managers, researchers, the fishing industry and the public.

Final report

Author: Malcolm Dunning
Final Report • 2000-12-14 • 21.26 MB
1995-167-DLD.pdf

Summary

More than 100 key datasets relevant to coastal habitat management and for monitoring the condition and trend of fisheries habitats in Queensland have been integrated into the Coastal Habitat Resources Information System (CHRIS) during this establishment phase.

Design of this geographic information system (GIS) framework has benefited from extensive consultation  with habitat and fisheries managers with legislative responsibilities and interests in the coastal zone as well as GIS professionals from Queensland and Commonwealth Government agencies.

With a focus on pilot areas of the Moreton Bay region and the Wet Tropics coast in this establishment phase, CHRIS brings together mapping data from a variety of sources on coastal wetland vegetation, habitat disturbance, protected areas, and fisheries closures together with available coastal bathymetry and commercial and recreational fisheries catch and effort information. Spatial data available includes baseline habitat datasets not previously available in digital form and created during the project. Data sets are accessible in a standard GIS format (shapefiles) and associated metadata is available in Blue Pages format. Many relevant coastal datasets for which other agencies are custodians have been brought together in CHRIS. Researchers have enhanced access to basic data, facilitating modelling of interactions between fisheries productivity and habitat.

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