IMOS - National Mooring Network - South Australia (SA) Upper Spencer Gulf Mooring

Created 12/03/2025

Updated 06/06/2025

The SA Upper Spencer Gulf Mooring (IMOS platform code: SAMUSG) is one of four South Australian regional moorings designed to monitor particular oceanographic phenomena in coastal ocean waters. The mooring is located at Latitude:-33.11, Longitude:137.71. Both the Spencer and St Vincent Gulf’s support key fisheries, aquaculture and provide nursery grounds for many juvenile fish species. The moorings located in Upper Spencer Gulf and Gulf St Vincent are designed to provide long-term monitoring of these regions, informing the human impacts of these estuary systems from growing populations, mining and agriculture.

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Title IMOS - National Mooring Network - South Australia (SA) Upper Spencer Gulf Mooring
Language English
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Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/bf3b58af-24e4-42cd-b037-a5f0600f5566
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CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "IMOS - National Mooring Network - South Australia (SA) Upper Spencer Gulf Mooring". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/imos-national-mooring-network-south-australia-sa-upper-spencer-gulf-mooring