Proportion of species straddling Georges Bank EPU

Georges Bank EPU is defined as an area within a subset of predefined Statistical fishing areas. Landings from a statistical area were attributed to Georges Bank by determining how variable landings were over time and if constant assign a fixed proportion of the landings to the Georges Bank region

Usage

AllSpeciesProportions

Format

A data frame with 4 columns

AREA

Statistical Area code

NESPP3

species code from commerical fishing database

InOut

Designation of insie or outside Georges Bank

MeanProp

Mean proportion of landings within AREA for each species