CANRI Projects 2002-2003
Project Plans Received

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The call for Project Plans to selected Project Proposal proponents has now closed.  

Project plans have been evaluated by the CANRI Board and funding allocated. A summary of all project plans is presented below.  

 

Access Management received 4-Jul-2002 Project Manager: TBA - Contact: J.Doig (Ph: ) Lead org: CANRI Program Organisation Chart Main audience: State government Deliverables MS Excel Type: portal | a | C | O | r | N Schedule MS Excel Start: Aug-02 CANRI Cost: $52K MS Excel Theme: a | b | h | l | m&e | u | v | w | N/A End: Jun-03 Most CANRI resources are public access. Some datasets and applications require various levels of registration or access approval. The access management project provides within the CANRI Framework a mechanism for applications and datasets to be appropriately restricted to authenticated users. It also provides a mechanism for a user to have a single UserID and password for access all her authorised CANRI resources.

ALGKEY received 2-Jul-2002 Project Manager: Tim Entwisle (Ph: 9231 8113) Lead org: Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney Organisation Chart Main audience: State government Deliverables MS Excel Type: portal | A | c | o | R | n Schedule MS Excel Start: Jul-02 CANRI Cost: $53K MS Excel Theme: a | B | h | l | M&E | u | v | W | n/a End: Jun-03 The objective of the ALGKEY project is to provide Internet-accessible interactive identification tools for the freshwater algal genera of New South Wales. These tools will be part of the Royal Botanic Gardens’ PlantNET website and will complement the national Census of Freshwater Algae of Australia also presented on PlantNET, and hence, linked to the CANRI website. To date there is no single key to the more than 500 genera of freshwater algae in New South Wales. ‘Freshwater Algae’ is a diverse group, including red algae, green algae such as desmids, diatoms and blue-green algae/bacteria. Identification currently relies heavily on overseas literature which is frequently in obscure scientific journals and often leads to misidentification of Australian algae. Identifications are also very difficult to achieve using traditional keys due to the complexity of terminology, and characters that are difficult to observe. ALGKEY wil…[more]

Architecture received 2-Jul-2002 Project Manager: TBA - Contact: J.Doig (Ph: ) Lead org: CANRI Program Organisation Chart Main audience: [Click to select one] Deliverables MS Excel Type: portal | a | c | o | r | n Schedule MS Excel Start: Jul-02 CANRI Cost: $40K MS Excel Theme: a | b | h | l | m&e | u | v | w | N/A End: May-03 This project will provide an integrated up-to-date software architecture model and system documentation of the various inter-relating components of key whole-of-government online systems relating to natural resources (CANRI), planning (iPlan) and biodiversity (BioNet). This will enable development of each system to proceed with knowledge of the components available from the other systems, as well as how to connect to them, and thus will allow participating agencies to maximise functionality of the total system and avoid duplication of development effort.

BIWGMG received 2-Jul-2002 Project Manager: Gary Hyde (Ph: 02 9585 6844) Lead org: National Parks and Wildlife Service Organisation Chart Main audience: State government Deliverables MS Excel Type: portal | A | c | o | r | N Schedule MS Excel Start: Jul-02 CANRI Cost: $20K MS Excel Theme: a | B | h | l | m&e | u | v | w | n/a End: Jun-03 The Biodiversity Information Network project has established a Biodiversity Information Working Group (BIWG) chaired by NPWS and with representatives from NSW Agriculture, Australian Museum, DLWC, EPA, NSW Fisheries, Royal Botanic Gardens, State Forests. Representatives from the agencies meet regularly to oversee and discuss the development of the project. A Project Manager currently coordinates the work of the Biodiversity Information Network and maintains linkages to CANRI, and this project proposal is to continue existing part-funding of that position.

Natural Resource Reporting Water Quality received 2-Jul-2002 Project Manager: Cecilia Tram (Ph: 9895 7808) Lead org: Dept of Land and Water Conservation Organisation Chart Main audience: Natural Resource Management committees Deliverables MS Excel Type: PORTAL | A | C | o | R | N Schedule MS Excel Start: Jul-02 CANRI Cost: $100K MS Excel Theme: a | b | h | l | m&e | u | v | W | n/a End: May-03 This is a draft project plan subject to approval by John Verhoeven. The aim of NRRWQ is to publish water quality data on the internet in a format that meets the reporting needs (for water quality – salinity, phosphorus and turbidity) of catchment management boards (within Central West and Sydney South Coast regions of DLWC) and NSW State of the Environment Reports. This project will pilot a reporting process that will apply to other indicators for Catchment Blueprints, NSW State of the Environment, NLWRA, and others. NRRWQ will scope and test the potential for automated and semi-automated publishing, through Web Feature Server and IDMS work done previously. This will eliminate the need to publish data products ‘manually’. They will be accessed online, and automatically created as specified by the user. To provide coverage for data across the whole State, additional datasets need to be served from agencies other than DLWC. These …[more]

Catalogue received 2-Jul-2002 Project Manager: TBA - Contact: J.Doig (Ph: ) Lead org: CANRI Program Organisation Chart Main audience: State government Deliverables MS Excel Type: portal | a | C | o | R | N Schedule MS Excel Start: Jul-02 CANRI Cost: $50K MS Excel Theme: a | B | h | L | m&e | u | v | w | n/a End: May-03 Catalogues are one of the most complex areas for CANRI, with issues including authority, how things are classified, completeness and duplication across multiple catalogues. Technical and policy standards are still at an early stage of development and are still evolving separately in different communities, such as libraries and GIS. Recognising this difficulty, this project will pilot a two-way link: firstly providing access from external web applications to CANRI spatial datasets via the CANRI catalogue, and secondly providing access from CANRI web applications to external catalogues of spatial data collections. This should deliver improved access to CANRI resources and other spatial data for end users, and at the same time serve as a national model for development of the Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure.

Communication_Strategy received 4-Jul-2002 Project Manager: Cecilia Tram (Ph: ) Lead org: CANRI Program Organisation Chart Main audience: Natural Resource Management committees Deliverables MS Excel Type: portal | a | c | o | r | N Schedule MS Excel Start: Jul-02 CANRI Cost: $10K MS Excel Theme: a | b | h | l | m&e | u | v | w | N/A End: Jun-03 Now that CANRI has developed the technical and policy framework, more focus needs to be directed at the user end of the business process. The Government is committed to community involvement in natural resource management and decision-making. This sector of the community can be defined as "users of NR information in decision-making". It is this sector that CANRI will be targeting in 2002-03. This sector comprises CANRI’s priority client, the catchment management boards, as well as other natural resource management committees, local government and community groups involved in natural resource management. Their needs are defined as information, information products, access and general user instruction. An additional sector is defined as CANRI collaborators, mainly comprising NRIMS agencies. In addition to providing data through CANRI, they utilise CANRI policy and technology to create products that deliver on their corporate prio…[more]

CANRI Program Coordination received 4-Jul-2002 Project Manager: Jonathan Doig (Ph: 02 9895 7781) Lead org: CANRI Program Organisation Chart Main audience: State government Deliverables MS Excel Type: portal | a | c | o | r | N Schedule MS Excel Start: Jul-02 CANRI Cost: $200K MS Excel Theme: a | b | h | l | m&e | u | v | w | n/a End: Jun-03 This is a DRAFT Project Plan. This project provides coordination of the entire CANRI program on behalf of the CANRI Board. It provides support for CANRI Board, project managers, Program Implementation Group and the Community Reference Group. Includes project management support and coordination of the CANRI Project Planning Process, administrative support, for Board/PIG/CRG Meetings and financial management of the program. This project funds the resources required for coordination and a general operational budget. This project ensures the CANRI website is maintained and the delivery of products and reporting via the website. It will include ongoing and update of core and priority data listing and coordination of online data serving.

Gazetteer received 2-Jul-2002 Project Manager: TBA - Contact: J.Doig (Ph: ) Lead org: CANRI Program Organisation Chart Main audience: Industry Deliverables MS Excel Type: portal | A | c | o | r | n Schedule MS Excel Start: Jul-02 CANRI Cost: $20K MS Excel Theme: a | b | h | l | m&e | u | v | w | N/A End: Feb-03 Gazetteers allow users to quickly locate their area of interest. While CANRI applications have basic gazetteer functions, improved functions could make it much faster and easier for users to get to the information they need. However, user interfaces for gazetteer functions are not yet well-developed or standardised. This project will prototype, test and refine user interfaces for a range of required gazetteer functions. The prototypes will function by calling a remote gazetteer service based on the draft OpenGIS Consortium (OGC) Web Feature Server (WFS) specification. If possible within the budget, the project will produce a candidate gazetteer specification (a WFS profile) for consideration by OGC. The project will be put to open tender, and the successful tenderer will be required to implement the prototyped user interface in their web mapping product.

Green_Web_Sydney received 2-Jul-2002 Project Manager: John Harkin (Ph: 9585 6487) Lead org: National Parks and Wildlife Service Organisation Chart Main audience: Local government Deliverables MS Excel Type: PORTAL | A | C | o | R | n Schedule MS Excel Start: Jul-02 CANRI Cost: $40K MS Excel Theme: a | B | h | l | m&e | u | V | w | n/a End: Jun-03 This project plan has been jointly submitted by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Green Web Sydney project to publish biodiversity data that will assist Sydney’s local councils, Catchment Management Boards and the general public make informed decisions about biodiversity conservation. This project meets one of the primary CANRI assessment criteria by meeting the needs of local government and has the full support of the NPWS, Regional Organisations of Councils (ROCs) and the EPA. The Green Web Sydney project (on behalf of the Sydney Regional Organisations of Councils) encourages a strategic and co-operative approach to natural resource management in the Sydney region. The Green Web Sydney project has collected an extensive data set pertaining to vegetation management in the Sydney metropolitan area, including: Local Plant Communities Policies for the protection of native vegetation Develop…[more]

Herblink - Royal Botanic Gardens received 2-Jul-2002 Project Manager: Louisa Murray (Ph: (02) 9231 8111) Lead org: Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney Organisation Chart Main audience: General public Deliverables MS Excel Type: portal | a | c | o | R | N Schedule MS Excel Start: Jul-02 CANRI Cost: $32K MS Excel Theme: a | B | h | l | m&e | u | v | w | n/a End: Jun-03 The 1,000,000 plant specimens stored at the National Herbarium of New South Wales is the major resource used by scientific botanists to confirm the identification of plants. To make this resource available to the community-based resource managers, we commenced the scanning of over 8,000 specimens (species, subspecies and varieties) occurring in New South Wales. As this project was initiated and funded in 2000-2001, the implementation and purchasing of the camera and hardware for the project has been completed and the day to day running of the project is in progress. The major activity now is the scanning and preparation of the digital images for presentation in Herblink. Over 3000 images are complete at this stage.

Master Names List of Fauna of NSW (MNL) received 2-Jul-2002 Project Manager: Michael Elliott (Ph: 93206345) Lead org: Australian Museum Organisation Chart Main audience: [Click to select one] Deliverables MS Excel Type: portal | a | C | o | r | n Schedule MS Excel Start: Jul-02 CANRI Cost: $30K MS Excel Theme: a | B | h | l | m&e | u | v | w | n/a End: Jun-03 The Museum’s Fauna Collections have large numbers of species that cannot be mapped as part of FaunaNet.This project will harvest names from the Australian Museums Fauna Collections and include them in the NSW Fauna Master Names List.

MEBWeb II received 8-Jul-2002 Project Manager: Manager, Protected Areas (Ph: 4982 1107) Lead org: Port Stephens Fisheries Centre, Private bag 1 Organisation Chart Main audience: Coastal stakeholders and communities. Deliverables MS Excel Type: PORTAL | a | C | o | r | n Schedule MS Excel Start: Aug-02 CANRI Cost: $50K MS Excel Theme: a | b | h | L | m&e | U | V | w | n/a End: Jun-03 This project will allow community access to available information on the distribution, condition and management of marine biodiversity in NSW, which will be displayed in the form of digital maps. These will assist managers in making more informed decisions and will foster a greater community awareness and understanding of marine conservation initiatives in NSW.

Native Vegetation Mapping Program Application (NVMPA) received 2-Jul-2002 Project Manager: Ross Peacock (Ph: 02 98957621 Mobile 0428 651 440) Lead org: Dept of Land and Water Conservation Organisation Chart Main audience: Natural Resource Management committees Deliverables MS Excel Type: PORTAL | A | C | o | R | N Schedule MS Excel Start: Jul-02 CANRI Cost: $51K MS Excel Theme: a | B | h | L | m&e | u | V | w | n/a End: Oct-02 The Native Vegetation Mapping Program Application aims to develop electronic linkages between various raw and derived vegetation mapping data themes and provide an accessibility tool for searching and viewing them via WebMapComposer on the CANRI web site.

Open Apps received 2-Jul-2002 Project Manager: TBA - Contact: J.Doig (Ph: ) Lead org: CANRI Program Organisation Chart Main audience: [Click to select one] Deliverables MS Excel Type: PORTAL | A | C | o | r | N Schedule MS Excel Start: Jul-02 CANRI Cost: $50K MS Excel Theme: a | b | h | l | m&e | u | v | w | N/A End: May-03 This project will make CANRI information resources, especially web mapping, more easily accessible to users via both the CANRI site and other websites. It will make CANRI mapping applications and other information callable with a given map extent or centre, and given data layer or data theme (eg "soils") in the web address. Content managers of other websites could then place a link to CANRI maps in their own pages by using a URL like www.canri.nsw.gov.au/atlas?extent=150,33,151,34&theme=soils. This would open up CANRI information resources so that outside webmasters can use them in their own local/regional or topic-specific websites across NSW. The new capability will also be used to deliver a revised CANRI homepage where users can find and access maps easily by navigating down a…[more]

RAMS Far West received 2-Jul-2002 Project Manager: Graham Turner (Ph: 299955494) Lead org: Environment Protection Authority Organisation Chart Main audience: Natural Resource Management committees Deliverables MS Excel Type: portal | a | c | o | R | n Schedule MS Excel Start: Aug-02 CANRI Cost: $15K MS Excel Theme: a | b | h | l | m&e | u | v | w | n/a End: May-03 The CANRI RAMS Far West builds on the multiagency Resource Assessment & Monitoring System (RAMS) Far West long term monitoring program. This collaborative program has been using satellite imagery to monitor and map the clearing and cropping activities, annually, within the NSW Western Division at a paddock scale since the early 1980s. The CANRI Far West project will correct GIS topological and misclassification errors in this extensive database, patch a number of temporal gaps, and delivery of a generalised set of grids to the public domain through the CANRI webmapping structure. In general, the project will validate the database to provide reliability appropriate for dissemination to the public

Rangeland Reporting received 8-Jul-2002 Project Manager: Rob Richards (Ph: 02 68833051) Lead org: Organisation Chart Main audience: State government Deliverables MS Excel Type: portal | a | c | o | R | n Schedule MS Excel Start: Jul-02 CANRI Cost: $26K MS Excel Theme: a | B | h | L | m&e | u | V | w | n/a End: Jun-03 The Department of Land and Water Conservation’s Rangeland Assessment Program (RAP) has been collecting data at a network of monitoring sites since 1989. The program represents the State’s sole effort to monitor long term change in the semi-arid rangelands of NSW. Data is collected annually from approximately 350 sites located in seven major rangetypes throughout western NSW. The program aims to increase our understanding of sem-arid ecosystems and promote sustainable land management through the provision of advice to land planners, administrators, policy makers and practitioners. Spatial and textual data on vegetation composition, abundance and biomass is collected along with soil surface condition and a range of site attributes including fire history, rainfall, total grazing pressure and landholder observations. Data can be amalgamated to be presented at a number of spatial scales – rangetype, Interim Biographic Regionalisation of Australia (IBRA), Catchme…[more]

RIIS Phase 4 received 2-Jul-2002 Project Manager: Ray Boyton (Ph: 02 98957516) Lead org: Dept of Land and Water Conservation Organisation Chart Main audience: State government Deliverables MS Excel Type: portal | A | c | o | R | n Schedule MS Excel Start: Jul-02 CANRI Cost: $40K MS Excel Theme: a | b | h | l | m&e | u | v | W | n/a End: Mar-03 This project will further expand on the river information provided to the Internet using the CANRI framework. It will publish data from Sydney Water Authority and Snowy Mountains Authority on the River Information Internet System site. This site is the "principal" location for obtaining a State view of river flow data and will be compatible with and linked to other natural resource data.

SBSWeb received 4-Jul-2002 Project Manager: Gary Hyde (Ph: 02 9585 6844) Lead org: National Parks and Wildlife Service Organisation Chart Main audience: Natural Resource Management committees Deliverables MS Excel Type: PORTAL | A | c | o | R | N Schedule MS Excel Start: Jul-02 CANRI Cost: $65K MS Excel Theme: a | B | h | L | m&e | U | V | W | n/a End: Jun-03 Datasets from the NSW Biodiversity Strategy projects, for which NPWS is the nominated custodian, will be made available to other CANRI applications by making them accessible to the Natural Resources Atlas. An application will also be built to report on conservation effort and priorities on a catchment, bioregion and state basis. Key amongst these will be access to newly developed ecosystems mapping, and ecosystem priorities. Further work will be undertaken to develop an application (and supporting information) which will provide catchment based interpretations of this data whilst accounting for larger (bioregional scale) and finer (ecosystem scale) conservation priorities.

SPADEturbo received 4-Jul-2002 Project Manager: Humphrey Milford (Ph: (02) 9895 6163) Lead org: Dept of Land and Water Conservation Organisation Chart Main audience: Natural Resource Management committees Deliverables MS Excel Type: PORTAL | a | c | o | R | n Schedule MS Excel Start: Jan-03 CANRI Cost: $40K MS Excel Theme: a | b | h | L | m&e | u | v | w | n/a End: Jun-03 This project builds on the achievements of previous phases by providing interactive maps of soil and land features, limitations and hazards online, throughout NSW, for Catchment Management Boards and Local Government agencies. These products are also highly applicable to other users such as land managers, community groups (e.g., Landcare) and Government agencies that need to be able to access information about land capability, suitability, limitations and hazards. Currently these products are time-consuming to develop and difficult to distribute, as they are produced as hard-copy or as specialised GIS files. However, using the developments embodied in this proposal, Internet users will be able to interactively generate their own thematic maps of soil and land issues, or access a range of pre-generated maps, using data sourced directly from DLWC’s Soil And Land Information System (SALIS). This data, comprising a series of datasets that together form …[more]

Tech Choice received 2-Jul-2002 Project Manager: TBA - Contact: J.Doig (Ph: ) Lead org: Organisation Chart Main audience: State government Deliverables MS Excel Type: portal | A | c | o | r | n Schedule MS Excel Start: New project plan due 31 August CANRI Cost: $30K MS Excel Theme: a | b | h | l | m&e | u | v | w | N/A End: Jan-00 This is a DRAFT Project Plan. This project will widen the available technology choices for creating web mapping applications that can integrate and present CANRI data. A CANRI participating agency will establish an operational web mapping site using distributed CANRI data integrated and presented using technology other than that provided by Social Change Online, who built the application server used in most current CANRI web mapping applications. This will serve as proof that multiple application-serving technology choices are available and practical. Documentation will be added to the DIY Manual explaining to other agencies how this was achieved. This project plan is only partially complete. Although both NPWS and EPA have expressed interest, neither agency has yet committed to undertaking this project. It is requested that funding be provisionally allocated to the project, with final approval pending receipt of a satisfactorily completed project p…[more]

Usability received 4-Jul-2002 Project Manager: Ceciila Tram (Ph: ) Lead org: CANRI Program Organisation Chart Main audience: Natural Resource Management committees Deliverables MS Excel Type: portal | a | c | o | r | n Schedule MS Excel Start: Jul-02 CANRI Cost: $75K MS Excel Theme: a | b | h | l | m&e | u | v | w | N/A End: Jun-03 This is a draft subject to final approval by the Project Sponsor. The CANRI website’s key applications will be subjected to formal user testing and the results used to guide a round of improvements to the application user interfaces. For the purposes of the project the target audience is defined as those people already actively involved in natural resource management, and will be referred to as NRM community users. They are already interested in environmental and natural resource information, but their knowledge and skills concerning internet-enabled information has not yet been defined.

Web-keys of Herbivorous Insects of New South Wales and their Host Associations received 2-Jul-2002 Project Manager: Gerry Cassis (Ph: 93206346) Lead org: Australian Museum Organisation Chart Main audience: [Click to select one] Deliverables MS Excel Type: portal | a | C | o | R | n Schedule MS Excel Start: Jul-02 CANRI Cost: $50K MS Excel Theme: a | B | h | l | m&e | u | v | w | n/a End: Jun-03 The project will deliver web-based interactive keys on insects associated with plants in New South Wales. Keys will be produced in LUCID software to the genera of stinkbugs of New South Wales. The products will be delivered through the CANRI framework. Additionally, verified information on host plants of these insects will be provided through the FAUNANET framework (via CANRI). The keys will be presented in user-friendly format so that they will be of use to a wide range of stakeholders, including professional scientists, environmental groups, and landholders. Higher plants and their associated insects are a major component of the diversity of life and the Australian Museum has a rich source of information on the identity of herbivorous insects (stinkbugs) and their host plants. Stinkbugs are important functional groups in natural ecosystems, agroecosystems, and forestry ecosystems. Furthermore, they are being increasingly important as biodiversity …[more]

Web Feature Server received 2-Jul-2002 Project Manager: TBA - Contact: J.Doig (Ph: ) Lead org: Organisation Chart Main audience: Natural Resource Management committees Deliverables MS Excel Type: portal | a | C | O | R | n Schedule MS Excel Start: Depends on pilot project CANRI Cost: $30K MS Excel Theme: A | B | h | L | m&e | u | V | W | n/a End: Jan-00 This is a DRAFT Project Plan. This project will maximise accessibility of Web Feature Server (WFS) client and server technologies to CANRI agencies, and improve functionality for end-users by WFS-enabling CANRI applications. The outcomes of the WFS pilot will be made operational and candidate WFS technologies assessed as they become available. This project plan is only partially complete. It is requested that funding be provisionally allocated to the project, with final approval pending receipt of a satisfactorily completed project plan at the conclusion of the Web Feature Server (WFS) Pilot project around end August 2002. The project plan is to be submitted no later than 31 October 2002.

WISE website application received 2-Jul-2002 Project Manager: Dr Richard Kingsford (Ph: 9585-6488) Lead org: National Parks and Wildlife Service Organisation Chart Main audience: Natural Resource Management committees Deliverables MS Excel Type: PORTAL | A | C | o | R | N Schedule MS Excel Start: Jul-02 CANRI Cost: $50K MS Excel Theme: a | B | H | l | m&e | U | V | W | n/a End: Jun-03 WISE (Water Information System for the Environment) is an innovative software package for managing information on water for an entire catchment. WISE is a collection of everything published on a catchment linked to the catchment’s wetlands or estuaries, rivers and creeks or the catchment itself with multiple links and multimedia material. It has, at its core, several databases (primarily bibliographic, content and sites) and a multimedia system with photographs, videos and sound files. The system is produced as a CD-Rom with the Macquarie Catchment, Hacking, Barwon-Darling, and Namoi currently on sale, and Gwydir, Paroo and Warrego to be launched in the next few months. New projects include the Illawarra, Castlereagh and Lower Darling. The project was an agreed priority of Water CEOs. It will contribute to CANRI principles and the New South Wales Government Water Reform, National Action Plan on Salinity and the Biodiversity Strategy. It was a finalist in th…[more]

Local_Government_Partner received 4-Jul-2002 Project Manager: Cecila Tram (Ph: ) Lead org: CANRI Program Organisation Chart Main audience: Local government Deliverables MS Excel Type: PORTAL | A | c | o | R | N Schedule MS Excel Start: Jul-02 CANRI Cost: $30K MS Excel Theme: a | b | h | l | m&e | u | v | w | n/a End: Jun-03 As part of the local-e initiative by LGSA, local governments have recognised the need for geo-spatial information as a specialised council service. The Local Government Partner project aims to: ensure that the LGSA local-e project adopts CANRI standards and architecture in its GIS component, and involve local councils in CANRI as data providers and users of the CANRI framework.

FDBC received 2-Jul-2002 Project Manager: John Pursey (Ph: ) Lead org: NSW Fisheries Organisation Chart Main audience: Natural Resource Management committees Deliverables MS Excel Type: PORTAL | a | c | o | R | n Schedule MS Excel Start: Jul-02 CANRI Cost: $50K MS Excel Theme: a | B | h | l | m&e | u | v | W | n/a End: Jun-03 The project links several Fisheries datasets via an appropriate geographic interface ( CANRI WMC or NSW Fisheries Fishfiles interface). Data will be organised using river catchments as the primary spatial unit, but in some cases will be further divided into zones within the catchment. Datasets to be provided will include; wiers/barriers, fish stocking locations, actual and predicted fish communities, survey site locations and administrative zonations such as fishing closures and declared trout waters. By selecting the catchment of interest the user is provided with a list of available datasets. Choosing a dataset generates symbols or polygons within the catchment, each of which is linked to a table that provides further information about the feature selected (Eg. height & width for weirs, species information, gazettal information for closures). Further links to specific related information will also be incorporated, where feasible. Spec…[more]