Recreational fishing indicators

Usage

recdat

Format

320 rows and 5 columns

• Var: Specifies variable name.

• Value: Value of variable Var.

• Units: Units of variable Var.

• Time: Year.

• EPU: Ecological Production Units where data originated. In this case, MA refers to Mid-Atlantic, and NE to New England.

Source

Read more about the MRIP database and perform your own queries at https://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/recreational-fisheries/data-and-documentation/run-a-data-query.

Details

There are five indicator time series within this data set: recreational effort (number of days fished), recreational seafood (number of fish caught), recreational anglers (number of anglers), diversity of recreational catch (effective Shannon index), and recreational fleet effort diversity across modes (effective Shannon index).

More information about each of these indicators is available at https://noaa-edab.github.io/tech-doc/recreational-fishing-indicators.html.