Annual Anchovy, Sardine and Mackerel landings in Hellenic Waters 1964-2007

Annual commercial landings of anchovy, sardine and mackerel from Greek fisheries compiled by the Hellenic Statisitcal Authority.

Usage

data(greeklandings)

Format

Objects of class "data.frame". Columns are Year, Species, log.metric.tons, metric.tons

Source

Hellenic Statisitcal Authority Digital Library

Details

Data are from Table IV in the "Sea Fishery by Motor Vessels" statistical reports published by the Hellenic Statisitcal Authority. The reports are available in Digital Library (ELSTAT), Special Publications, Agriculture-Livestock-Fisheries, Fisheries. In Table IV, the landings data were taken from the total column, units are metric tons. In the table, sardine is denoted ' Pilchard'. The data were assembled manually for the Fish Forecast eBook.

Examples

data(greeklandings)
anchovy = ts(subset(greeklandings, Species=="Anchovy")$log.metric.tons, start=1964)
plot(anchovy)


library(ggplot2)
ggplot(greeklandings, aes(x=Year, y=log.metric.tons)) + 
      geom_line() + facet_wrap(~Species)