Stock and recruitment data for Pacific Halibut, 1929-1991.

Description

Pacific Halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) stock, recruitment, landings, and fishing mortality by year, 1929-1991.

Format

A data frame of 63 observations on the following 5 variables:

• year: Year of data
• ssb: Spawning stock biomass (tonnes)
• rec: Recruits (thousands)
• land: Landings (in millions of pounds)
• fmort: Fishing related mortality

Topic(s)

• Stock-Recruit
• Recruitment

Source

From Anonymous. 1989. International Pacific Halibut Commission. Annual Report 1989.; Myhre, Gordon, Peltonen, Stpierre, Skud, and Walden. International Pacific halibut Commission. Technical Report No. 14.; Pers. Comm. with Pat Sullivan. Obtained from Ransom Myers online database which was (is?) at http://ram.biology.dal.ca/~myers/data.html.

Examples

data(HalibutPAC)
str(HalibutPAC)
head(HalibutPAC)
op <- par(mfrow=c(1,2),pch=19)
plot(rec~year,data=HalibutPAC,type="l")
plot(rec~ssb,data=HalibutPAC)
par(op)