FSAdata (version 0.3.3)

WShrimpGA: Stock and recruitment data for White Shrimp off the coast of Georgia (USA), 1979-2000.

Description

White Shrimp (Litopenaeus setiferus) stock and recruitment data from off the coast of Georgia (USA), 1979-2000.

Format

A data frame with 22 observations on the following 3 variables:

year

Year of data

stock

Spawning stock index -- CPUE in June assessment surveys

recruits

Recuit index -- commercial landings in pounds from Aug-Jan

yrconf

A code of confidence for whether or not the stock value is known to come from the year shown (see the note)

Source

From (approximately) Figures 2 and 3 of Belcher, C.N., and C.A. Jennings. 2004. Evaluation of stock-recruitment curves for white shrimp in Georgia. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 24:654-661.

Topic(s)

• Stock-Recruit
• Recruitment

Examples

data(WShrimpGA)
str(WShrimpGA)
head(WShrimpGA)
op <- par(mfrow=c(1,2),pch=19)
plot(recruits~year,data=WShrimpGA,type="b")
plot(recruits~stock,data=WShrimpGA)
par(op)