Kenyan Coral Reef Fisheries Data on Ground Expansion and Sustainability, 1987-2024

Seventy percent of artisanal fishing landing sites along Kenya's fringing reef expanded by an average of 5% annually over a 23-year period. The dataset, authored by Tim Rice McClanahan and shared on figshare, compares ecological and fisheries production in non-expanded and expanded grounds using fish censuses and a biomass-production model (R² = 0.78). It was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling effort-catch overshoot dynamics based on the described comparison of expanded and non-expanded fishing grounds.
• Projecting future fishery yields based on area estimation methods and catchability assumptions described in the study.
• Evaluating the long-term consequences of fishing ground expansion on per-area effort and yield trends over a 23-year period.

Strengths

• 23-year time series of ecological and fisheries data from 1987 to 2024.
• Biomass-production model with a reported R² value of 0.78.
• Analysis covers 70% of landing sites with quantified annual expansion rates.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The primary data format is a 2.6 MB PDF, which may require extraction for computational analysis.

Provenance

Source

Tim Rice McClanahan via figshare.

Collection Method

Fish censuses and a biomass-production model applied to artisanal coral reef fisheries.

Time Range

1987-2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-23 06:30:54; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Kenya's fringing reef