Changes in groundfish fishing communities in the northeast US from 1997-2014 as captured in the vessel trip report (VTR) data collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA-NMFS-NEFSC)

<p>This dataset describes changes in groundfish fishing communities in the northeast US from 1997-2014 as captured in the vessel trip report (VTR) data collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Marine Fisheries Service Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NOAA-NMFS-NEFSC), including:<br /> - annual latitudinal shift in fishing location;<br /> - whether the community is still extant in the dataset (and if not, the year it disappeared from the dataset);<br /> - mean shannon-wiener diversity metric of species composition of catch;<br /> - percentage of species composing 90% of catch.</p>