Cleaned spawner survey data

<p>This dataset is a version of the New Salmon Escapement Database (NuSEDS) downloaded from Open Data Canada on January 21, 2025 at <a href="https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/c48669a3-045b-400d-b730-48aafe8c5ee6">https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/c48669a3-045b-400d-b730-48aafe8c5ee6</a>.</p> <p>These data have been cleaned and matched to Conservation Units (CUs) by staff at the Pacific Salmon Foundation.&nbsp;</p> <p>Details of the data cleaning procedure are outlined in the Pacific Salmon Explorer Technical Report (Appendix 2) available online at <a href="https://www.salmonexplorer.ca/methods/appendix-2.html">https://www.salmonexplorer.ca/methods/appendix-2.html</a>.</p> <p>The entire cleaning procedure is available online at <a href="https://bookdown.org/salmonwatersheds/1_nuseds_collation_atkinson/1_nuseds_collation.html">a_nuseds_collation</a> and corresponding code <a href="https://github.com/salmonwatersheds/salmon_data_demise/blob/main/code/a_nuseds_collation.Rmd">a_nuseds_collation.Rmd</a>.</p> <p>The procedure to match the cleaned data to CUs is available online at <a href="https://bookdown.org/salmonwatersheds/2_nuseds_cuid_pse_atkinson/2_nuseds_cuid_pse.html">b_nuseds_cuid_pse</a> and corresponding code <a href="https://github.com/salmonwatersheds/salmon_data_demise/blob/main/code/b_nuseds_cuid_pse.Rmd">b_nuseds_cuid_pse.Rmd</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p>This revised dataset (v3, 2025-04-15) includes observed counts of zero.</p> <p>This is the dataset used in <a href="https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2024-0387">Atkinson et al. 2025. Monitoring for fisheries or for fish? Declines in monitoring of salmon spawners continue despite a conservation crisis</a>, published in the CJFAS.</p> <p>The definition of the fields/columns is available at: <a href="https://github.com/salmonwatersheds/population-indicators/blob/f33058a4aaa0e5fc30354588b5dab469cc9d2a4a/spawner-surveys/output/METADATA_2_nuseds_cuid_streamid.csv">METADATA_2_nuseds_cuid_streamid.csv</a></p>