FSAdata (version 0.3.3)

HalibutPAC: 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

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.

Topic(s)

• Stock-Recruit
• Recruitment

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)