Spatially explicit estimates of stock size, structure and biomass of North Atlantic albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga) in the North Atlantic for the period 1973-2011, compiled from statistics about ICCAT fishery region L2

• Main Authors: Lehodey, Patrick, Senina, Inna, Dragon, Anne-Cécile, Arrizabalaga, Haritz
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2014
• Subjects: Basin Scale Analysis; Synthesis and Integration; Code; DATE/TIME; Determined by number of hooks; EURO-BASIN; Event label; Fishing effort; ICCAT-L2; LATITUDE; LLDEP; LONGITUDE; Longline deployment; Thunnus alalunga; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.828226; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.828226

The development of the ecosystem approach and models for the management of ocean marine resources requires easy access to standard validated datasets of historical catch data for the main exploited species. They are used to measure the impact of biomass removal by fisheries and to evaluate the model...