Working with recreational data for the US West Coast from Recreational Fisheries Information Network (RecFIN).
We support the efforts of the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSMFC) to provide a clearing house for recreational sampling data collected over the years along the US West Coast. This package is meant to work with this data.
- MRFSS: Marine Recreational Fisheries Statistics Survey
- PSMFC: Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission
- RecFIN: Recreational Fisheries Information Network
Each state collects data from their recreational fisheries which is then transmitted to RecFIN:
- CRFS: California Recreational Fisheries Survey
- ORBS: Oregon Ocean Recreational Boats Survey
Installing RecFIN requires the use of devtools or remotes. The latter is a dependency of the former so you can just install devtools from CRAN.
Install the most recent, stable version of the package from github using
remotes::install_github("pfmc-assessments/RecFIN")
Reading in recreational fisheries data can be done with the
RecFIN::read_*() functions.
The read_* functions automatically clean the data and work towards
providing consistent column names such as Year instead of YEAR.
Consistency is key because there are so many providers of data when
it comes to recreational fisheries. Users can also clean their data
themselves using the RecFIN::clean_*() functions.
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RecFIN was developed by US federal government employees as part of their official duties. As such, it is not subject to copyright protection and is considered public domain (see 17 USC § 105). Public domain software can be used by anyone for any purpose, and cannot be released under a copyright license.