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Catch-effort data for Smallmouth Bass (Micropterus dolomieu) in Little Silver Lake, Ont.

Format

A data frame with 10 observations on the following 3 variables:

day

Day of the catch

catch

Number of smallmouth bass caught

effort

Number of traps set per day

Source

From Omand, D.N. 1951. A study of populations of fish based on catch-effort statistics. Journal of Wildlife Management, 15:88-98. CSV file

Topic(s)

  • Population size

  • Abundance

  • Depletion methods

  • Leslie method

  • DeLury method

  • Catchability

See also

Used in depletion examples.

Examples

str(SMBassLS)
#> 'data.frame':	10 obs. of  3 variables:
#>  $ day   : int  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
#>  $ catch : int  131 69 99 78 56 76 49 42 63 47
#>  $ effort: int  7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
head(SMBassLS)
#>   day catch effort
#> 1   1   131      7
#> 2   2    69      7
#> 3   3    99      7
#> 4   4    78      7
#> 5   5    56      7
#> 6   6    76      7