Data for 4X5Y Atlantic Cod / Grey Seal analysis
Rossi, S.P., Wang, Y., den Heyer, C.E., Benoît, H.P. 2024. Evaluating the potential impacts of grey seal predation and bycatch on cod productivity on the Southern Scotian Shelf and in the Bay of Fundy. ICES Journal of Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsae053.
Preprint: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.08662
Repository DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10896094
fisheryLandingsAndDiscards.csv - Commercial fishery landings and discards (mt; 1960-2021)
fisheryCAA.csv - Commercial fishery catch-at-age (1970-2021, ages 1-13)
fisheryWAA.csv - Commercial fishery weight-at-age (kg; 1970-2021, ages 1-12)
surveyBiomass.csv - Survey biomass indices by vessel (1970-2021)
surveyCAA.csv - Survey catch-at-age (1970-2021, ages 1-13)
surveyCAA-BF.csv - Survey catch-at-age in Bay of Fundy (1970-2021, ages 1-13)
surveyCAA-SS.csv - Survey catch-at-age on Scotian Shelf (1970-2021, ages 1-13)
surveyWAA.csv - Survey weight-at-age (kg; 1970-2021, ages 1-13)
startWAA.csv - Beginning-of-year weight-at-age (kg; 1970-2022, ages 1-7)
lobsterPAA.csv - Proportions-at-age of cod caught as bycatch in lobster fishery
swnsSealPupProduction.csv - Indices of pup production at Southwest Nova Scotia breeding colonies
N_iatsh_ensemble.Rdata - R object (N_iatsh) containing grey seal abundance by posterior sample (i), age (a), year (t), sex (s), and herd (h) - see http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsab088
sealProp4X.csv - Proportion of time satellite-tracked grey seals spent in 4X by herd, sex, and month
sealBodyMassF.csv - Male body mass (kg; ages 1-12)
sealBodyMassF.csv - Female body mass (kg; ages 1-12)