Why Select the NOAA Top Tens?
NOAA Fisheries surveys commercial catches like this one every year for its biostatistical menhaden data set that it uses to assess menhaden stocks and to manage the nation’s second-largest fishery. This and two other long-term regional fisheries data sets–the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations and the Northeast Bottom Trawl Surveys–combine to make up one of NOAA’s Top Ten Foundation Data Sets.
