This assignment involved sourcing and analysing a dataset from the Queensland Fisheries QFish database. The data was imported into R Studio and uploaded into GitHub, an accessible collaborative coding platform. Throughout this study, I enhanced my data-wrangling skills and successfully created an informative graph derived from complex data.Â
This study investigated the Queensland line-based fishery data from 1994 to 2023. The aim was to visually depict the catch volume (in tonnes) over time. Notably, there was a sudden decrease in catch volume in 2020, followed by a stark increase in 2023. To further understand these fluctuations, an additional graph was created to understand the relationship between fishing efforts (days at sea) over the same period.
Figure 1. Catch volume (tonnes) from line-based Queensland fisheries from 1994 to 2023.
Figure 2. Line-based Queensland fishery effort from 1994 to 2023.
The code used to formulate the graph is linked below using the GitHub platform.