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Catch lines in Townsville

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Publisher Department of Primary IndustriesLicence CC BY 4.0Version 2026-06-19Rows 3,666

3,666 of the 23,118 catch lines in Shark Control Program catch numbers, Queensland are in Townsville, 1996 to 2025. Published by Department of Primary Industries under CC BY 4.0, version 2026-06-19.

The number of sharks and other animals caught by Queensland's shark nets and drumlines, by month, beach, gear and species, since 1996. This page holds the rows where area is Townsville. The whole table, with every area, is Shark Control Program catch numbers, Queensland.

3,666catch lines

1996 to 2025years drawn

23,118in the whole table

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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 sum of the number caught column from version 2026-06-19, worked out in the build. Nothing else is added.

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Files for Townsville

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.

townsville.json3,666 rows as JSON

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.

year	month	month_name	area	beach	gear	marine_park	species_group	caab_code	common_name	scientific_name	alive_deceased	fate	fate_reason	number_caught
2026	4	April	Townsville	Alma Bay	Drum	Commonwealth Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP)	SHARK	37018013	SPOT-TAIL WHALER	Carcharhinus sorrah	Deceased	null	null	1
2026	4	April	Townsville	Alma Bay	Drum	Commonwealth Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP)	SHARK	37018026	PIGEYE WHALER	Carcharhinus amboinensis	Deceased	null	null	1
2026	4	April	Townsville	Alma Bay	Drum	Commonwealth Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP)	SHARK	37018039	COMMON BLACKTIP WHALER	Carcharhinus limbatus	Deceased	null	null	1
2026	4	April	Townsville	Florence Bay	Drum	Commonwealth Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP)	SHARK	37018013	SPOT-TAIL WHALER	Carcharhinus sorrah	Deceased	null	null	2
2026	4	April	Townsville	Florence Bay	Drum	Commonwealth Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP)	SHARK	37018022	TIGER SHARK	Galeocerdo cuvier	Deceased	null	null	1
2026	4	April	Townsville	Florence Bay	Drum	Commonwealth Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP)	SHARK	37018026	PIGEYE WHALER	Carcharhinus amboinensis	Alive	Released Alive	null	1
2026	4	April	Townsville	Florence Bay	Drum	Commonwealth Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP)	SHARK	37018026	PIGEYE WHALER	Carcharhinus amboinensis	Deceased	null	null	1
2026	4	April	Townsville	Florence Bay	Drum	Commonwealth Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP)	SHARK	37018039	COMMON BLACKTIP WHALER	Carcharhinus limbatus	Deceased	null	null	1
2026	4	April	Townsville	Horseshoe Bay	Drum	Great Barrier Reef Coast Marine Park (GBRCMP)	OTHER	37041004	MANTA RAY	Mobula birostris	Alive	Released Alive	null	2
2026	4	April	Townsville	Horseshoe Bay	Drum	Great Barrier Reef Coast Marine Park (GBRCMP)	SHARK	37018013	SPOT-TAIL WHALER	Carcharhinus sorrah	Deceased	null	null	3

The 15 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 a count of animals of one species caught on one kind of gear at one beach in one month, with whether they were alive or dead, their fate and the reason, and the marine park the beach lies in.

Does it include animals other than sharks?

Yes. The species group column separates sharks from turtles, marine mammals and other animals such as rays and fish, which the publisher includes in the same table.

Why are some scientific names blank?

The publisher writes NULL where an animal was not identified to species, such as an unknown shark. Those cells are null here.

Other areas

Attribution and citation

The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used.

Department of Primary Industries (2026) Shark Control Program catch numbers, Queensland, version 2026-06-19 [data set], CC BY 4.0, sourced 3 October 2026. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au. Available at: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-shark-control-catch-numbers/v/2026-06-19/

Author-date form. The dataset page has the same citation as text, HTML, Markdown and BibTeX.

Source

Department of Primary Industries publishes the whole table on www.data.qld.gov.au. This site cuts these rows from it without changing them. Questions about the content go to the publisher.

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