This dataset describes changes in groundfish fishing communities in the northeast US from 1997-2014 as captured in the vessel trip report (VTR) data collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Marine Fisheries Service Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NOAA-NMFS-NEFSC).
This dataset describes changes in groundfish fishing communities in the northeast US from 1997-2014 as captured in the vessel trip report (VTR) data collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Marine Fisheries Service Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NOAA-NMFS-NEFSC), including:
- annual latitudinal shift in fishing location;
- whether the community is still extant in the dataset (and if not, the year it disappeared from the dataset);
- mean shannon-wiener diversity metric of species composition of catch;
- percentage of species composing 90% of catch.
Pinsky, M., Young, T. (2019) Changes in groundfish fishing communities in the northeast US from 1997-2014 as captured in the vessel trip report (VTR) data collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA-NMFS-NEFSC). Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2019-01-09 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.752624.1 [access date]
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