ICESareas: ICES areas (mixed area codes from 2018)

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ICES areas (mixed area codes from 2018)

Description

Definition for FAO Northeast Atlantic (Major Fishing Area 27) area coding system used in ICES data calls, as they have been defined from 2018 inclusive. Polygons are defined on the finest available level of aggregation, either Subarea, Division, Subdivision or Unit.

Usage

data(ICESareas)

Format

sf with area names identified in the column 'StratumName'. See StratumPolygon (v.2).

Details

In addition to columns identifying the polygons in FAO nomenclature, a column with the area in square kilometers is included. Polygons are derived from shapefiles provided by ICES web-portals, and has been edited with some simplifications. Notably detailed coast-lines have been removed, in favor of drawing area borders on land-mass.

Polygons are defined in WGS84 coordinates (unprojected).

The data contains the following columns with rows for each area:

Area_km2

Area of ICES area in squared kilometers

Area_Full

Code for full ICES area, including the FAO area code (27).

Area_27

Code for full ICES area, excluding the FAO area code (27).

The data also contains columns for the individual components of the full ICES area code: <Major_FA>.<SubArea>.<Division>.<SubDivision>.<Unit>

See Also

ICESsubArea, ICESdivision, ICESsubDivision, and ICESunit for polygon files separating the different levels of ICES areas.

Examples

 # plot ICES areas
 data(ICESareas)
 plotArea(areaDef=ICESareas)

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