Modified and cleaned data from NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology’s Fisheries Statistics Division’s Commercial Landings Query, Available at: https://foss.nmfs.noaa.gov/apexfoss/f?p=215:200:::::: for all coastal states combined with state and regional data.
data(land)A data frame with 53940 rows and 10 variables:
four-digit year
weight of fish caught, in pounds
value of fish caught, in USD
category of organism. For our analysis, we aggregated landings and revenue data into two different fisheries: finfish (defined by all organisms in the infraphylum Gnathostomata) and shellfish (defined by all organisms in the phyla Arthropoda and Mollusca)
Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN) as defined by the Integrated Taxonomic Information System Distinguishing species fishery categories was done easily with the R package ‘taxize'
The state the fish was caught in, in full name
The region the fish was caught in, in full name
The region the fish was caught in, abbrevated
data(land)