Stock and recruitment data for Red King Crab in Alaska, 1960-2004.

Description

Stock and recruitment data for Red King Crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) from the northern Gulf of Alaska around Kodiak Island by brood year, 1960-2004.

Format

A data frame of 44 observations on the following 3 variables:

• year: Brood year (1960-2004)
• recruits: abundance (thousands) of male recruits (>=125 mm and <145 mm)
• adults: abundance (thousands) legal (>=145 mm carapace length) males

Topic(s)

• Stock-Recruit
• Recruitment

Source

From table 1 in Bechtol W.R. and G.H. Kruse. 2009. Analysis of a stock-recruit relationship for red king crab off Kodiak Island Alaska. Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics Management and Ecosystem Science 1:29-44.

Examples

data(KingCrabAK)
str(KingCrabAK)
head(KingCrabAK)
op <- par(mfrow=c(1,2),pch=19)
plot(recruits~year,data=KingCrabAK,type="l")
plot(recruits~adults,data=KingCrabAK)
par(op)