| Summary: | In an effort to analyze whether trends in confidentiality levels would skew commercial harvest data, commercial harvest data were compiled from all regions of Alaska except Prince William Sound, Southeast Alaska, and the Arctic. The data was taken from annual salmon fishery management reports, provided by the Alaska Department of Fish & Game, Division of Sport Fish and Commercial Fisheries (http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/sf/publications/). The data from Prince William Sound and Southeast Alaska were not included because there was not much confidential data; the Arctic region doesnât have commercial fisheries. This package includes the original reports as pdf files, the data extracted from the reports, an R markdown file that reformats and compiles the extracted data (CommercialHarvest_Reports.Rmd), and the reformatted data (Commercial_Harvest_Reports.csv). Commercial salmon harvests were categorized in numbers of each fish species by year. In the reformatted dataset, areas were combined and renamed to corresponding SASAP regions, and some data removed.
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