import urllib
import json
import pandas as pd

# read in json
url = 'https://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/data/api/v1/source/trawl.catch_fact/selection.json?filters=' + \
      'field_identified_taxonomy_dim$scientific_name=Eopsetta%20jordani,date_dim$year>=2010,' + \
      'date_dim$year<=2012&variables=date_dim$yyyymmdd,field_identified_taxonomy_dim$scientific_name'
api_response = urllib.urlopen(url)
json_file = json.loads(api_response.read())

pd.DataFrame(json_file)