nca4-changes-in-species-distribution-and-abundance-panel-3-process

Methodology:

A time series of spawning stock biomass (mt) of female lobsters in the Southern New England stock is provided in Table 6.3.4.1 of American Lobster Benchmark Stock Assessment and Peer Review Report (2015). Methods for deriving this time series are explained in the stock assessment report.

Line graph plotted of year vs. spawning stock biomass (mt) of female lobsters in the Southern New England stock

Methodology Contact: Katherine E. Mills, Gulf of Maine Research Institute

Processes

The duration of this activity was 15 hours.

Interim artifacts generated by this activity :

C:\Users\kmills\Documents\Active research\NCA\species biomass trends data.xls

Output artifacts generated by this activity :

C:\Users\kmills\Documents\Active research\NCA\Fig18.5_Biomass_SNElobster.eps

Tools

Computing environment : Windows 10

Software used : R Studio 0.99.878

Visualization software used : R Studio 0.99.878

Data Bounding

The input object was time bounded starting from January 01, 1979 (00:00 AM)

The input object was time bounded ending at December 31, 2013 (00:00 AM)

The input object was bounded spatially:

This activity resulted in the following :

• image a46ab07e-e634-4017-80a8-46df217ec987 was derived from American Lobster Benchmark Stock Assessment and Peer Review Report.