Bottom-trawl and gill-net data from the Upper Great Lakes, collected by R/V Cisco, 1952?1962

The data release includes part of the bottom-trawl and gill-net survey data collected between 1952 and 1962 from the research vessel R/V Cisco. The bottom-trawl dataset includes tables for fishing operations and effort (BT_OP.csv), fish catch (BT_Catch.csv), and individual length-weight-sex-maturity (LWSM) records (BT_Fish.csv) for only a subset of species (details below). The gill-net dataset includes tables for fishing operations (GN_OP.csv), fishing effort (GN_Effort.csv), fish catch (GN_Catch.csv), and individual LWSM records (GN_Fish.csv) for only a subset of species (details below). Two reference tables, BT_Spec.csv and Species.csv, are used for bottom trawl specifications and fish species names, respectively. This data release is part of the project "Historical habitat use by Coregonus artedi in the Upper Great Lakes and critical embayments" funded by Environmental Protection Agency's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Due to the scope of this project, the catch tables (GN_Catch.csv and BT_Catch.csv) only include data for alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus), rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax), and cisco (Coregonus artedi). LWSM data tables (GN_Fish.csv and BT_Fish.csv) only include data for cisco. Additional data collected from the surveys are archived at the Great Lakes Science Center.