Abstract:
Marine and Coastal Management (MCM) is one of four branches of the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism. It is the regulatory authority responsible for managing all marine and coastal activities. The demersal data set has been collected from cruises around the South African Coast, and currently contains 201741 of 230 families. For ease of extraction the dataset has been divided into 6 - years ranging from 1983-1985, 1986-1990, 1991-1995, 1996-2000, 2001-2005 and 2006.
Quality
There might be some spelling mistakes in the names. Overland records were taken out.
Access Constraints
None.
Use Constraints
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