A Very Large Spawning Aggregation of the basketwork eel, Diastobranchus capensis, on the small (3 km2) Patience Seamount off southeast Australia.

Brief description

Samples and data from the eel aggregation were collected opportunistically during three surveys that aimed primarily to map the seabed and associated benthic biodiversity on the continental slope off southern Tasmania in an area containing a cluster of small volcanic seamounts. Details of the three surveys are respectively at https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/surveydetails.cfm?survey=SS200702 https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/surveydetails.cfm?survey=IN2015E02 and https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/surveydetails.cfm?survey=IN2018_V06 If this data has been used in any products, please acknowledge with the following: We acknowledge the use of the CSIRO Marine National Facility (https://ror.org/01mae9353) in undertaking this research.