get_foreign_data: Downloads all NAFO data

In NOAA-EDAB/comlandr: Pulls and processes commercial fishing data from the Northeast US

Downloads all NAFO data

Description

Downloads, imports, aggregates NAFO data from 21B data base

Usage

get_foreign_data(
  filterByYear = NA,
  filterByArea = NA,
  removeUSA = T,
  aggregateCountry = T
)

Arguments

filterByYear	Numeric vector. Years for which data is required
filterByArea	Character vector. NAFO Areas for which data is required
removeUSA	Boolean. Should USA landings be removed from data set? (Default = T, remove)
aggregateCountry	Boolean. Should all catch be aggregated over country codes? (Default = T)

Value

Data frame: NAFO data

Year	Year of catch
MONTH	Month of catch
QY	Quatere year of catch. Jan-Mar = 1, ..., Oct-Dec = 4
GearCode	NAFO gear code
Tonnage	Size class of vessel
DivCode	Division code in which vessel reported catch
Code	NAFO species code of landed fish
SPPLIVMT	catch in Metric tons
Country	Reporting country - only if aggregateCounty = F

See Also

NAFO 21B website: https://www.nafo.int/Data/Catch-Statistics-STATLANT-21B

Examples

nafoData <- get_foreign_data(filterByYear = 2000)
head(nafoData)

NOAA-EDAB/comlandr documentation built on March 1, 2025, 8 p.m.