Data from: Impact of disease on the survival of three commercially fished species ...

• Main Authors: Hoenig, John M., Groner, Maya L., Smith, Matthew W., Vogelbein, Wolfgang K., Taylor, David M., Landers Jr., Donald F., Swenarton, John T., Gauthier, David T., Sadler, Philip, Matsche, Mark A., Haines, Ashley N., Small, Hamish J., Pradel, Roger, Choquet, Rémi, Shields, Jeffrey D.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2017
• Subjects: Chionoecetes opilio; Homarus americanus; 1999-2015; disease; 2006-2008; Mycobacterium spp.; 2005-2014; Hematodinium sp.; Morone saxatilis; 2007-2011; Canada; Newfoundland; Snow crab
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f56v8; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.f56v8

Recent increases in emergent infectious diseases have raised concerns about the population stability of some marine species. The complexity and expense of studying diseases in marine systems often dictate that conservation and management decisions are made without quantitative data on population-level impacts of disease. Mark-recapture is a powerful, underutilized, tool for calculating impacts of disease on population size and structure, even in the absence of etiological information. We applied logistic regression models to mark-recapture data to obtain estimates of disease-associated mortality rates in three commercially-important marine species: snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) in Newfoundland, Canada, that experience sporadic epizootics of bitter crab disease; striped bass (Morone saxatilis) in the Chesapeake Bay, USA, that experience chronic dermal and visceral mycobacteriosis; and American lobster (Homarus americanus) in the Southern New England stock, that experience chronic epizootic shell disease. ... : Snow crab recapture data 2006-2008, Conception BaySnow crabs from Conception Bay that were recaptured after a tagging study initiated in 2006. DAL= days at large, M= disease status at tagging (0=healthy, 1=diseased), disease (bitter crab disease) was diagnosed by visual assessment of the carapace. Data on crabs that were not recaptured is excluded.BCD Crab.csvMD_Striped bass mark-recapture mycobacteriosisData from tag-recapture study of striped bass in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland from 2007-2011. Tag=tag identifier, rel_date= release date, dal= days at large (between tagging and recapture, NA animals were not recaptured), tl= total length at tagging, rel_dc= disease status at release (0= healthy, 1= mild diseased, 2=moderate disease, 3=severe disease, see manuscript for further description).MD_Striped bass.csvVA_Striped bass mark-recapture mycobacteriosisData from tag-recapture study of striped bass in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia from 2005-2014. Tag=tag identifier, rel_date= release date, dal= days at large ...