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Animals in Capricorn Coast

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Publisher Department of Primary IndustriesLicence CC BY 4.0Version 2026-06-19Rows 3,311

3,311 of the 26,391 animals in Shark Control Program catches by length and sex, Queensland are in Capricorn Coast, 1996 to 2025. Published by Department of Primary Industries under CC BY 4.0, version 2026-06-19.

The length and sex of each shark and other animal caught by Queensland's shark nets and drumlines since 1996. This page holds the rows where area is Capricorn Coast. The whole table, with every area, is Shark Control Program catches by length and sex, Queensland.

3,311animals
1996 to 2025years drawn
26,391in the whole table
01002003004001996 Drum: 1011996 Other: 11997 Drum: 681997 Other: 119971998 Drum: 691999 Drum: 1012000 Drum: 952001 Drum: 8320012002 Drum: 882003 Drum: 662004 Drum: 762005 Drum: 8320052006 Drum: 642007 Drum: 812008 Drum: 642009 Drum: 5820092010 Drum: 592011 Drum: 632012 Drum: 1122013 Drum: 12120132014 Drum: 712015 Drum: 752016 Drum: 572017 Drum: 4320172018 Drum: 452019 Drum: 392020 Drum: 512021 Drum: 14320212022 Drum: 1912023 Drum: 2492024 Drum: 3112025 Drum: 3692025
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Animals caught per year by gear, 1996 to 2025. 2026 is not drawn because the year was not over when the publisher released this version on 19 June 2026. A count of rows from version 2026-06-19, worked out in the build. Nothing else is added.

Files for Capricorn Coast

The rows for this area alone, cut from version 2026-06-19. Each file carries the publisher's attribution and names the partition it holds.

The query API answers the same rows and counts from a URL, in JSON, CSV or NDJSON: rows and aggregate. Every format of the whole table, with a format picker, is on the dataset page.

A sample of 10 rows

From the latest version, newest first by year, then in the publisher's order, with every field. A blank cell is shown as null.

yearmonthmonth_nameareabeachgearmarine_parkspecies_groupcaab_codecommon_namescientific_namealive_deceasedfatefate_reasonlength_msex
20265MayCapricorn CoastEmu ParkDrumCommonwealth Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP)SHARK37018022TIGER SHARKGaleocerdo cuvierAliveReleased Alivenull1.03F
20264AprilCapricorn CoastCAD 8 Emu ParkDrumCommonwealth Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP)SHARK37018022TIGER SHARKGaleocerdo cuvierAliveReleased Alivenull1.74M
20264AprilCapricorn CoastCooee BayDrumCommonwealth Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP)SHARK37018022TIGER SHARKGaleocerdo cuvierDeceasednullnull1.14M
20264AprilCapricorn CoastCooee BayDrumCommonwealth Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP)SHARK37018022TIGER SHARKGaleocerdo cuvierDeceasednullnull2.56F
20264AprilCapricorn CoastEmu ParkDrumCommonwealth Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP)SHARK37018021BULL WHALERCarcharhinus leucasDeceasednullnull1.12M
20264AprilCapricorn CoastEmu ParkDrumCommonwealth Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP)SHARK37018026PIGEYE WHALERCarcharhinus amboinensisDeceasednullnull1.02F
20264AprilCapricorn CoastEmu ParkDrumCommonwealth Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP)SHARK37018026PIGEYE WHALERCarcharhinus amboinensisDeceasednullnull1.73M
20264AprilCapricorn CoastFarnborough BeachDrumCommonwealth Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP)SHARK37018021BULL WHALERCarcharhinus leucasDeceasednullnull0.88F
20264AprilCapricorn CoastFarnborough BeachDrumCommonwealth Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP)SHARK37018021BULL WHALERCarcharhinus leucasDeceasednullnull2.26F
20264AprilCapricorn CoastFarnborough BeachDrumCommonwealth Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP)SHARK37018023LONG NOSE WHALERCarcharhinus brevipinnaDeceasednullnull1.44M

The 16 fields are described on the dataset page, and schema.xlsx is the data dictionary.

Before you use it

What is in each row?

Each row is one animal caught by the Shark Control Program, with the year and month, area, beach, gear, marine park, species, whether it was alive or deceased, its fate, its length in metres and its sex.

What do the sex codes mean?

F is female, M is male and U is unknown. The publisher writes NULL where no sex was recorded, which is null here.

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