Regional commercial salmon permit earnings by residency status, Alaska, 1975-2016

This dataset synthesizes several existing datasets of permit earnings to estimate permit earnings by residency status in Alaskan commercial salmon fisheries by the region in which fish are harvested. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game Basic Information Tables (Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission. 2018. Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission Basic Information Table, 1975-2016. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity. doi:10.5063/F1HX19Z2) were used in conjunction with the Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission public permit database (Commercial Fisheries Entry Commision CFEC. 2016. Commercial Fisheries Entry Commision Public Permit Database from 1975-2016. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity. doi:10.5063/F12R3PZM.) and available fish ticket data (Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission. 2018. Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission Permit Earnings, 1975-2016. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity. doi:10.5063/F1D50K8H) to create the best possible estimate of regional earnings with residency information. These three datasets were used in conjunction since a portion of the fish ticket data is confidential, and public data using higher levels of aggregation with the regions of interest for this study was not available. The data here are presented as earnings by residency. Residency is categorized as nonresident (permit owner resides outside of Alaska), resident local rural (permit owner resides in the same district as the fishery, in a rural community), resident local urban (permit owner resides in the same district as the fishery, in an urban community), resident nonlocal rural (permit owner resides in a different district than the fishery, in a rural community), and resident nonlocal urban (permit owner resides in a different district than the fishery, in an urban community). The urban/rural distinction is made on a community basis by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. All earnings values are presented in adjusted 2017 dollars using the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index data for Anchorage. Included in this dataset is a file with annual total earnings by region and residency (regional_earnings_residency.csv), an R markdown document used to make the file (permitearnings.Rmd), several reference tables used in data formatting, and figures showing results by region.