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Stock assessment metadata and reference points for species found in waters of the USA. Data is provided for actively managed stocks of a federal Fisheries Management Plan (FMP). Stocks solely managed by US States are not provided.

For a description of all variables please refer to the Stock SMART data dictionary https://apps-st.fisheries.noaa.gov/stocksmart/StockSMART_DataDictionary.pdf

Usage

stock_assessment_summary

Format

A data frame

stock_name
stock_id

Unique Stock identifier

assessment_id

Unique Assessment identifer

jurisdiction
fmp
science_center
regional_ecosystem
fssi_stock
itis
scientific_name
common_name
stock_area
assessment_year
assessment_month
last_data_year
assessment_type

Joining of Update Type and Assessment Type: Describes the level of assessment effort

review_result
assessment_model
model_version
lead_lab
citation
final_assessment_report_1
final_assessment_report_2
point_of_contact
life_history_data
abundance_data
catch_data
assessment_level
assessment_frequency
model_category
catch_input_data
abundance_input_data
biological_input_data
ecosystem_linkage
composition_input_data
f_year
estimated_f
f_unit
f_basis
flimit
flimit_basis
fmsy
fmsy_basis
f_over_flimit
f_over_fmsy
ftarget
ftarget_basis
f_over_ftarget
b_year
estimated_b
b_unit
b_basis
blimit
blimit_basis
bmsy
bmsy_basis
b_over_blimit
b_over_bmsy
msy
msy_unit

Data download

The data were downloaded from Stock SMART - Status, Management, Assessments & Resource Trends.