nybight {SDaA}

Data Collected in the New York Bight

Description

Data collected in the New York Bight for June 1974 and June 1975 (Wilk et al. 1977)

Usage

nybight

Format

Data frame with the following 7 variables:

year

year

stratum

stratum membership, based on depth

catchnum

number of fish caught during trawl

catchwt

total weight (kg) of fish caught during trawl

numspp

number of species of fish caught during trawl

depth

depth of station (m)

temp

surface temperature (degrees Celsius)

Note

Two of the original strata were combined because of insufficient sample sizes.

Source

Wilk, S.J. et al. (1977). Fishes and associated environmental data collected in New York bight, June 1974 - June 1975. NOAA Technical Report NMFS SSRF-716. Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office.

References

Lohr (1999). Sampling: Design and Analysis, Duxbury, p. TODO and 443.