Eutrophication, water quality, and fisheries: a wicked management problem with insights from a century of change in Lake Erie

The datasets here were used to examine relationships between the overall
productivity of Lake Erie and the commercial harvest of lake whitefish
(Coregonus clupeaformis), walleye (Sander vitreus), and yellow perch
(Perca flavescens) during 1915–2011. Here, we provide the two datasets
used in the paper by Sinclair et al. titled "Eutrophication, water
quality, and fisheries: a wicked management problem with insights from a
century of change in Lake Erie". Each dataset is provided as a
separate tab in a single Excel worksheet. The first dataset
("Productivity") provides the annual values of the five metrics
used to develop the index of overall Lake Erie productivity. The second
dataset ("Commercial harvest") provides the total annual
commercial harvest (kg) of the three fish species, which were obtained
from the Great Lakes Fishery Commission
(http://www.glfc.org/great-lakes-databases.php). A summary and explanation
of each variable is provided in the "Info" tab. Further
information on how values were calculated (and transformed if necessary)
is provided in either the info tab or the methods and supporting
information of the associated article.