Government of Alberta Fish Codes

Official Alberta Fisheries and Wildlife Management Information System (FWMIS) fish data.

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Format

A tbl data frame that includes:

Species Common Name

A character vector of the AB fish species common name.

Scientific Name

A character vector of the AB fish species scientific name.

Species Code

A character vector of the unique data centre fish code.

Details

Located under FWMIS fisheries loadforms

The data is released under the Open Government Licence - Alberta

References

AB Fisheries and Wildlife Management Information System (FWMIS). 2021. AB Environ. and Parks Edmonton, AB Available: https://www.alberta.ca/fisheries-loadforms.aspx (accessed Feb 9, 2021).

See also

Other fishcodes: cdc, freshwaterfish

Examples

head(ab)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 3
#>   `Species Common Name`         `Scientific Name`           `Species Code`
#>   <chr>                         <chr>                       <chr>         
#> 1 AFRICAN JEWELFISH             HEMICHROMIS BIMACULATUS     AFJW          
#> 2 ARCTIC CHAR                   SALVELINUS ALPINUS          ARCH          
#> 3 ARCTIC GRAYLING               THYMALLUS ARCTICUS          ARGR          
#> 4 ARCTIC GRAYLING (BELLY POPLN) THYMALLUS ARCTICUS MONTANUS AGMN          
#> 5 ARCTIC LAMPREY                LAMPETRA JAPONICA           ARLM          
#> 6 ATHABASCA RAINBOW TROUT       ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS         ARTR