Landings and value of Lake Superior Lake Whitefish.

Description

Landings and value of Lake Whitefish Coregonus clupeaformis in Lake Superior by state from 1971-2001.

Format

A data frame with 12 observations on the following 4 variables:

• year: Year of catch.
• state: State of catch (MI, MN, or WI).
• catch: Catch in lbs.
• value: Value of catch in dollars.

Topic(s)

• Other

Source

Results from a query in 2006 to the NMFS Great Lakes Commercial Fishery Landings database which was (is?) at http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/pls/webpls/webst1.MF_GL_SPECIES_HELP.SPECIES.

Examples

data(WhitefishLS)
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