Marine species do not need visas: the transboundary nature of the world’s exploited marine species.
This repository is intended to support the project The transboundary nature of the world’s exploited marine species.
Authors: Juliano Palacios-Abrantes1, Gabriel Reygondeau1,2, Colette Wabnitz3,4, and William W.L. Cheung1.
- Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
- Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Centre for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
*Corresponding author: Juliano Palacios-Abrantes, j.palacios@oceans.ubc.ca
- Link to paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-74644-2
Project Goal:
- Determine the number of current fisheries that are shared by neighboring countries (transboundary)
- Estimate their contribution to global fishing catch and revenue
Files and folders organization:
In this repository you will find all of the code related to the manuscript Marine species do not need visas: the transboundary nature of the world’s exploited marine species.
Folders
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Figures
: Manuscript final figures -
Manuscript_Instructions
: Submission instructions from the journal -
References
: Documents needed for the references of the manuscript including the reference list -
Scripts
: Contains the files used to run the analysis and write the manuscript -
Initial_Analysis.Rmd
: This is the RMD where all the data analysis for the manuscript will be done
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Manuscript_Draft.RMD
: Manuscript draft to be submitted as a PDF or word document
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RFMO_Analysis.RMD
: Script to explore the analysis at the RFMO level (outdated)
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Tables
: Manuscript tables in csv format -
Drobo
: Shortcut to the Drobo where all data is stored
Data
The raw data used in this analysis comes from different sources including OBIS, GBIF, The Sea Around Us, and FishBase, among others. These can be sourced directly from their respectively webpages and/or the references provided on the text. The data containing the identification of transboundary species per eez and fishing nation (e.g. the main result of this work) and the catch trend of each taxon per eez can be found in the Data
folder. Please feel free to email me to discuss anything related to data sharing or code reproducibility.
This repository has been archived and is no longer updated. The master branch contains the most updated version