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1 Summary

This analysis converts FAO mariculture data into one of the data layers used to calculate OHI 2022 global natural products (NP) scores. We will conduct the overall NP data prep on seaweeds, fish oil/fish meal (FOFM), and ornamentals, however, our final layer from this data prep will only consist of seaweeds.

2 Updates from previous assessment

New year of FAO mariculture data (1950-2020). Replaced deprecated functions (replace_at(), spread(), gather())


3 Data Source

3.1 Production data

Reference:
http://www.fao.org/fishery/statistics/software/fishstatj/en#downlApp Release date: March 2021 FAO Global Aquaculture Production Quantity 1950_2020 FAO metadata found here

Downloaded: April 25, 2022

Description: Quantity (tonnes) of mariculture for each country, species, year.

Time range: 1950-2020

3.2 Seafood Watch sustainability data

Reference: https://www.seafoodwatch.org/globalassets/sfw/pdf/whats-new/seafood-watch-complete-recommendation-list.pdf Release date: March 4, 2022

Downloaded: June 22, 2022

Description: Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch aquaculture recommendations. Sustainability scored from 0-10. Rescaled to 0-1. There is only one value for seaweeds in the data… 0.67


4 Methods

knitr::opts_chunk$set(eval=FALSE)
## load libraries, set directories
library(ohicore)  #devtools::install_github('ohi-science/ohicore@dev')
library(zoo)  
library(here)
library(tidyverse)
library(plotly)

version_year <- "2022"

## Load FAO-specific user-defined functions
source(here('workflow/R/fao_fxn.R')) # function for cleaning FAO files
source(here('workflow/R/common.R')) # directory locations
source(here(paste0('globalprep/np/v', version_year, '/R/np_fxn.R')))
source(here(paste0('globalprep/mar/v', version_year, '/mar_fxs.R'))) # functions specific to mariculture dealing with compound countries

5 Import Raw Data: FAO Mariculture data

Mariculture production in tonnes.

mar <- read.csv(paste0(dir_M, '/git-annex/globalprep/_raw_data/FAO_mariculture/d', version_year, '/FAO_GlobalAquacultureProduction_Quantity_1950_2020.csv'),
                check.names=FALSE, stringsAsFactors=FALSE)

head(mar) 

6 Wrangle:

6.1 Tidy mariculture data

Filter freshwater mariculture, make long format, and clean FAO codes.

mar <- mar %>%
  dplyr::select(-`Unit (Name)`) %>%
  rename(country = `Country (Name)`,
         FAO_name = `ASFIS species (Name)`, 
         fao = `FAO major fishing area (Name)`, 
         environment = `Environment (Name)`) %>%
  rename_with(~ gsub("\\[", "", .)) %>%
  rename_with(~ gsub("\\]", "", .))

table(mar$environment)  

## Include only marine and brackishwater environments
mar <- mar %>%
filter(environment %in% c("Brackishwater", "Marine"))  

# Change to latest *DATA* year
latest_year <- "2020"

## Convert to long format and clean FAO codes:
mar <- mar %>%
  select(-Unit) %>% 
  pivot_longer(cols = "1950":latest_year, names_to = "year", values_to = "value") %>% 
  fao_clean_data_new() 

6.2 Update seaweed species information

Filter out seaweed species from ‘raw/species_list.csv’ (from ‘globalprep/mar/v2020/raw’), rename columns, and assign proportions to “include” column determined by research of non-human food vs human food seaweed species cultivated in mariculture. For NP, we are only including non-human food seaweed species. Since some species are used for both non-human food and human food purposes, a proportion is assigned based on research and best guess.

## Read in 'species_list.csv' (originally from 'globalprep/mar/v2021/raw'). Filter for 'Taxon_code = AL' (only seaweed species). Rename 'exclude' columns to 'include' since we're now including seaweed species that were excluded in the MAR dataprep (not primarily used as human food). Therefore, "0" means exclude completely (0%), and "1" means include completely (100%).
seaweed_sp <- read.csv(here('globalprep/mar/v2021/raw/species_list.csv'), stringsAsFactors=FALSE) %>%
  filter(Taxon_code == 'AL') %>%
  rename(include = exclude)

## Save in 'globalprep/np/v2022/raw' as 'species_list_np_seaweeds.csv'.
write.csv(seaweed_sp, "raw/species_list_np_seaweeds.csv", row.names = FALSE)

6.3 Update species names

Update species name in the raw/species_list_np_seaweeds_edited.csv file with names in the mar dataset. Simplified the species list and cut the “species” name columns because it wasn’t clear what this was trying to accomplish and created potential error.

## Read in edited 'species_list_np_seaweeds_edited.csv'.
seaweeds <- read.csv(here(paste0("globalprep/np/v", version_year, "/raw/species_list_np_seaweeds.csv")), stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

seaweeds_sp <- seaweeds %>%
  select(FAO_name, include, alias, Taxon_code, family)

## REMOVE SPECIES not relevant to natural products goal (i.e., human food species)
seaweed_np <- seaweeds_sp %>% 
  left_join(mar, by="FAO_name") %>% 
  filter(include > 0)

spp_1 <- unique(sort(seaweed_np$FAO_name))
rgn_1 <- unique(seaweed_np$country)
# went from 45 species to 40 species (5 completely human food species removed) - v2021
 
## Change names using species alias or FAO species name (global changes)
seaweed_np$species <- ifelse(!is.na(seaweed_np$alias), seaweed_np$alias, seaweed_np$FAO_name) 
## Sum production values for each group to account for duplicate rows after name change (remove NA values)
seaweed_np <- seaweed_np %>%
  filter(!is.na(value)) %>%
  group_by(country, fao, environment, species, year, Taxon_code, family, include) %>% 
    summarize(value = sum(value)) %>% 
  ungroup()
spp_2 <- unique(sort(seaweed_np$species))
rgn_2 <- unique(seaweed_np$country)

setdiff(spp_1, spp_2)
# went from 40 species to 36 species (lost "Bright green nori", "Kelp nei", "Giant kelps nei", "Mozuku") due to no production values for those species - v2022
setdiff(rgn_1, rgn_2)
# went from 53 to 52 countries - this is ok... because the one we "lost" was an NA - v2022

## Eliminate country-species data with zero production throughout the time-series (1950-recent)
seaweed_np <- seaweed_np %>%
  group_by(country, species) %>%
  mutate(total_value = sum(value)) %>%
  filter(total_value > 0) %>%
  select(-total_value) %>%
  ungroup()

6.4 Convert country names to OHI regions

## Divide mariculture from countries that we report as separate regions (assume equal production in all regions)
# Netherlands Antilles: Conch restoration among Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao
# Channel Islands: Jersey and Guernsey
# Bonaire/S.Eustatius/Saba
# Yugoslavia SFR: no longer a country after 1992
seaweed_np <- seaweed_np %>%
  mutate(country = ifelse(country=="Réunion", "Reunion", country)) %>%  # this one is hard to get right; v2020: last year it was "R\xe9union", but this year it was "Réunion" - not present in v2021 data
  mar_split()  # function in mar_fxs.R

mar_rgn_all <- name_2_rgn(df_in = seaweed_np, 
                       fld_name='country', 
                       flds_unique=c('species', 'fao', 'environment', 'Taxon_code', 'year', 'include')) 
## Sum values of regions with multiple subregions
mar_rgn <- mar_rgn_all %>%
  group_by(fao, environment, species, year, Taxon_code, family, rgn_id, include) %>% 
  summarize(value = sum(value)) %>%
  ungroup()
# went from 3150 to 3121 obs - v2021 - This is correct; Un. Sov. Soc. Rep. and Russian Federation were combined.
# went from 3233 to 3173 obs - v2022 - Same as 2021 and Zanzibar / Tanzania were combined

setdiff(mar_rgn$rgn_id, mar_rgn_all$rgn_id)

Take a look at the tidied data for a single year and region

data.frame(filter(mar_rgn, rgn_id==182) %>%
  filter(year==2016) %>%
  arrange(species))

7 Gapfilling

7.1 Fill in missing years after first year of harvest data with 0 values

Checked to make sure that there weren’t instances in which it made more sense to carry the previous year’s data forward as a method of gapfilling. This didn’t seem to be the case.

## Pivot wider mar_rgn to create a value for every year-species-region (if missing it will be given a NA)
mar_rgn_wide <- mar_rgn %>% 
  pivot_wider(names_from = year, values_from = value)

dim(mar_rgn_wide)

## Turn data frame back into long format
mar_rgn_gf <- mar_rgn_wide %>% 
  pivot_longer(cols = -(fao:include), names_to = "year", values_to = "value") %>% 
  arrange(rgn_id, species, year, Taxon_code, fao, environment) 

## NA values are converted to zero
mar_rgn_gf <- mar_rgn_gf %>%
  mutate(year = as.numeric(as.character(year))) %>%
  mutate(value_w_0 = ifelse(is.na(value), 0, value)) %>%
  group_by(fao, environment, species, Taxon_code, rgn_id) %>% 
  mutate(cum_value = cumsum(value_w_0)) %>%
  ungroup() %>%
  filter(cum_value > 0) %>% # eliminates years before mariculture began
  mutate(gap_0_fill = ifelse(is.na(value), "NA_to_zero", "0")) %>% # record gapfill
  mutate(value = ifelse(is.na(value), 0, value)) %>% # finally, convert all NAs in original column to 0
  select(-cum_value, -value_w_0)

See how may NA values were converted to 0

table(mar_rgn_gf$gap_0_fill)
## 422 of these out of 2448+442 cases had NA converted to 0 - v2021 - seems reasonable given the added year of production
## 460 out of 2500+460 had NA converted to 0 - v2022

Remove species-region-environment time series with less than four years of seaweeed mariculture production > 0 tonnes (assume these are not established seaweed mariculture programs).

mar_rgn_gf = mar_rgn_gf %>% 
  group_by(rgn_id, species, fao, environment) %>%
  mutate (not_0 = length(value[value>0])) %>% # length of vector of years greater than 0
  filter (not_0>3) %>% # filter for groups that have at least four years of seaweed mariculture production 
  ungroup() %>% 
  select(rgn_id, species, fao, environment, year, include, value, Taxon_code, gap_0_fill) 

Add a unique identifier per cultivated stock that describes each species, fao region, and environment grouping.

## Add a unique identifier per cultivated stock
identifier = mar_rgn_gf %>% 
  select(rgn_id, species, fao, environment) %>% 
  unique() %>% 
  mutate(species_code = 1:n())
# 93 unique identifiers - v2021

mar_rgn_gf = left_join(mar_rgn_gf, identifier)
maric <- mar_rgn_gf

8 Calculate and save tonnes of seaweed

Find the tonnes per each region/year per each seaweed type (multiplied by “include” proportions).

Used to estimate total seaweed mariculture yield per country.

## Multiply "include" column by "value" column to find tonnes per region/year for each seaweed species
maric <- maric %>% 
  mutate(tonnes = include*value)
## Save for weighting purposes later on
write.csv(maric,"int/np_seaweeds_tonnes_weighting.csv", row.names = FALSE)

9 Sustainability Scores from Seafood Watch Data

9.1 Import data: Seafood Watch sustainability scores

These data describe the sustainability country/species combinations. In cases where these data were not available for a specific county/species, we just used the seafood watch seaweed sustainability score (6.72) (this was all of the seaweed species listed).

## Load in Seafood Watch sustainability scores data from mazu:
sw_sus <- read.csv(file.path(dir_M, 'git-annex/globalprep/_raw_data/seafood_watch_mar_sustainability/d2022/SFW_Aquaculture_ratings_062222.csv'), check.names = FALSE, stringsAsFactors = FALSE, na.strings = c("NA", ""))
head(sw_sus)

9.2 Wrangle

9.2.1 Tidy Seafood Watch sustainability data

Rename columns to match with MAR data and fill in species column

## Rename columns
sw_sus <- sw_sus %>%
  rename(report_title = 'ReportTitle',
         published_date = 'PublishedDate',
         sw_species = 'CommonNames',
         genus = 'Genus',
         spp = 'Species',
         fao_species = 'FAOCommonName',
         fda_species = 'FDACommonName',
         water_body = 'BOWs',
         country = 'Countries',
         state_territory = 'CountrySubs',
         method = 'Methods',
         score = 'AssessmentScore',
         escapes_score = 'C6Score',
         # Column ↓ formerly called "Overall Recommendation" - chose to stick with the same naming convention - v2022
         rec = 'AssessmentColor'
         ) %>% 
  dplyr::select(report_title, published_date, sw_species, genus, spp, fao_species, fda_species, country, state_territory, water_body, method, escapes_score, score, rec)

## Change species names using FAO species name (fao_species); if NA, use common name (sw_species)
sw_sus$species <- ifelse(!is.na(sw_sus$fao_species), sw_sus$fao_species, sw_sus$sw_species)

9.2.2 Keep NA countries

## These need to be re-added later (get cut when associated with region ids)
sw_sus_no_rgn <- filter(sw_sus, is.na(country)|country == "Worldwide")
  # 118 entries with no country

9.2.3 Convert country names to OHI region IDs.

## Change country names to match OHI region names
sw_sus_multiple <- sw_sus %>% 
  filter(str_detect(country, "\\|")) %>%
  separate_rows(country, sep = " \\| ")

sw_sus_df <- sw_sus %>%
  filter(!str_detect(country, "\\|")) %>%
  rbind(sw_sus_multiple) %>%
  filter(!is.na(country), country!="Worldwide")
  

## Convert country names to OHI region IDs. (ohicore/R/name_2_rgn.R)
sw_sus_rgn <- name_2_rgn(df_in = sw_sus_df, 
                       fld_name='country', 
                       flds_unique=c('fao_species', 'fda_species', 'sw_species', 'score'),
                       keep_fld_name = TRUE) # 'country' now shows the original Seafood Watch data name; 'rgn_name' is what we want to use from now on

## Re-add NA countries
sw_sus_rgn <- bind_rows(sw_sus_rgn, sw_sus_no_rgn) %>%
  unique()
  # 254 obs - v2021
  # 273 obs - v2022 - new obs for Norway, China, Taiwan, Japan, etc.

Join the seaweed sustainability data with the mariculture data

maric <- read_csv("int/np_seaweeds_tonnes_weighting.csv")


mar_sw_sus <- maric %>%
  left_join(sw_sus_rgn, by = c("species", "rgn_id")) %>%
  dplyr::select(rgn_id, year, species, Taxon_code, species_code, score, tonnes, gap_0_fill ) ## none of the specific species match

Since there are no sustainability scores for any of the species listed, we will gapfill with the seafood watch “Seaweed (Global)” score, which is 6.72.

NOTE FOR v2022: Scale this score the the max in the seafood watch data, like we did for mariculture.

mar_sw_sus <- mar_sw_sus %>%
  mutate(Sust = round(6.72/10,2)) %>% ## since none of the species match, we will give the general worldwide seaweed score from seafood watch (6.72)
  dplyr::select(-score)

Since some regions have multiple sustainability scores for the same species due to multiple aquaculture methods, but we don’t know what proportions of which methods are used, we take the average of the sustainability scores in these instances.

Average sustainability scores within regions with more than score (due to more than one aquaculture method):

mar_sw_sus <- mar_sw_sus %>% 
  dplyr::group_by(rgn_id, species) %>% 
  dplyr::mutate(Sust_avg = mean(Sust, na.rm=TRUE)) %>% 
  dplyr::ungroup()

Get rid of duplicates for region/species/year:

mar_sw_sus <- mar_sw_sus %>% 
  dplyr::distinct(rgn_id, species, year, .keep_all = TRUE) %>%
  dplyr::select(-Sust, sust_coeff = Sust_avg, taxon_group = Taxon_code) %>%
  mutate(taxa_code = paste(species, species_code, sep="_"))

Now look at a summary after appending all the Seafood Watch data

summary(mar_sw_sus)
# No NAs in Sust! 

10 Save Data:

## save seaweed mariculture sustainability dataset
seaweed_sust <- mar_sw_sus %>%
  dplyr::select(rgn_id, taxa_code, year, sust_coeff)
write_csv(seaweed_sust, "output/np_seaweed_sust.csv")
## Save seaweed mariculture harvest tonnes data ("tonnes" column already incorporated include proportions)
seaweed_harvest_tonnes <- mar_sw_sus %>%
  dplyr::select(rgn_id, taxa_code, year, tonnes)
anyDuplicated(seaweed_harvest_tonnes) # check for duplication
write.csv(seaweed_harvest_tonnes, 'output/np_seaweed_harvest_tonnes.csv', row.names=F)

10.1 Save gapfill datasets

## save a gapfill dataset for FAO tonnes data:
 
mar_FAO_gf <- mar_sw_sus %>% 
  rename("gapfill_fao" = "gap_0_fill") %>%
  mutate(method = ifelse(gapfill_fao == 0, "none", gapfill_fao), 
         gapfilled = ifelse(gapfill_fao == 0, 0, 1)) %>%
  dplyr::select(rgn_id, taxa_code, year, gapfilled, method)
 
write.csv(mar_FAO_gf, "output/np_seaweed_harvest_tonnes_gf.csv", row.names = FALSE)
 
## save a gapfill dataset for sustainability dataset
 
mar_sust_gf <- mar_sw_sus %>%
  mutate(method = "sfw_seaweed_score",
         gapfilled = 1) %>%
  dplyr::select(rgn_id, year, taxa_code, gapfilled, method)
 
write.csv(mar_sust_gf, "output/np_seaweed_sust_gf.csv", row.names = FALSE)

Datacheck:

## compare the harvest

## in particular, saint lucia's score increased a lot in 2021
## Less drastic increase in 2022 ~22 tons

## Compare yield data for Saint Lucia
np_old <- read.csv("../v2021/output/np_seaweed_harvest_tonnes.csv") %>% 
  filter(rgn_id == 122, year == 2019) %>% 
  select(rgn_id, taxa_code, tonnes)
np_new <- read.csv("output/np_seaweed_harvest_tonnes.csv") %>% 
  filter(rgn_id == 122, year == 2020) %>% 
  select(rgn_id, taxa_code, tonnes)

yield <- np_old %>% 
  full_join(np_new, by = c("rgn_id","taxa_code")); View(yield) ## the production increased by ~22 tonnes 


## Compare yield data for Vietnam - Vietnam score decreased
np_old <- read.csv("../v2021/output/np_seaweed_harvest_tonnes.csv") %>% 
  filter(rgn_id == 207, year == 2019) %>% 
  select(rgn_id, taxa_code, year, tonnes)
np_new <- read.csv("output/np_seaweed_harvest_tonnes.csv") %>% 
  filter(rgn_id == 207, year == 2020) %>% 
  select(rgn_id, taxa_code, year, tonnes)

yield <- np_old %>% 
  full_join(np_new, by = c("rgn_id","taxa_code")); View(yield)