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Parameters for all known standard weight equations.

Format

A data frame with observations on the following 13 variables:

species

Species name. Use wsVal() to see the list of available species.

units

Units of measurements. Metric uses lengths in mm and weight in grams. English uses lengths in inches and weight in pounds.

type

Type of equation (linear or quadratic).

ref

Reference quartile (75, 50, or 25).

measure

The type of length measurement used -- total length (TL) or fork length (FL).

method

The type of method used to derive the equation (Regression Line Percentile (RLP; see Murphy et al. (1990) and Murphy et al. (1991)), Empirical Percentile (EmP; see Gerow et al. (2005)), or Other).

min.len

Minimum total length (mm or in, depending on units) for which the equation should be applied.

max.len

Maximum total length (mm or in, depending on units) for which the equation should be applied.

int

The intercept for the model.

slope

The slope for the linear equation or the linear coefficient for the quadratic equation.

quad

The quadratic coefficient in the quadratic equation.

source

Source of the equation. These match the sources given in Neumann et al. (2012).

comment

Comments about use of equation.

Source

Most of these equations can be found in Neumann et al. (2012). Species not in Neumann et al. (2012) are noted as such in the comments variable.

Details

The minimum TL for the English units were derived by rounding the converted minimum TL for the metric units to what seemed like common units (inches, half inches, or quarter inches).

Topic(s)

  • Relative weight

  • Standard weight

  • Condition

IFAR Chapter

8-Condition.

References

Ogle, D.H. 2016. Introductory Fisheries Analyses with R. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL.

Gerow, K.G., R.C. Anderson-Sprecher, and W.A. Hubert. 2005. A new method to compute standard weight equations that reduces length-related bias. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 25:1288–1300.

Murphy, B.R., M.L. Brown, and T.A. Springer. 1990. Evaluation of the relative weight (Wr) index, with new applications to walleye. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 10:85–97.

Murphy, B. R., D. W. Willis, and T. A. Springer. 1991. The relative weight index in fisheries management: Status and needs. Fisheries (Bethesda) 16(2):30–38.

Neumann, R.M., C.S. Guy, and D.W. Willis. 2012. Length, Weight, and Associated Indices. Chapter 14 in Zale, A.V., D.L. Parrish, and T.M. Sutton, editors. Fisheries Techniques. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD.

See also

See wsVal and wrAdd for related functionality.

Examples

str(WSlit)
#> 'data.frame':	205 obs. of  13 variables:
#>  $ species: chr  "Aegean Chub" "African Sharptooth Catfish" "Alabama Bass" "Ankara Nase" ...
#>  $ units  : chr  "metric" "metric" "metric" "metric" ...
#>  $ type   : chr  "quadratic" "quadratic" "linear" "quadratic" ...
#>  $ ref    : int  75 75 75 75 75 75 50 75 75 25 ...
#>  $ measure: chr  "TL" "TL" "TL" "TL" ...
#>  $ method : chr  "EmP" "EmP" "RLP" "EmP" ...
#>  $ min.len: num  70 180 100 70 150 150 160 6 150 70 ...
#>  $ max.len: num  220 450 NA 240 NA NA NA NA NA 390 ...
#>  $ int    : num  -3.8 -3.67 -5.6 -10.02 -5.24 ...
#>  $ slope  : num  1.78 1.89 3.29 7.4 3.08 ...
#>  $ quad   : num  0.329 0.209 NA -0.971 NA ...
#>  $ source : chr  "Giannetto et al. (2012)" "Emiroglu et al. (2018)" "Dicenzo et al. (1995)" "Emiroglu et al. (2020)" ...
#>  $ comment: chr  "none" "only from Sakarya River Basin (Turkey)" "min.len not made clear (assumed same as Spotted Bass); same as Spotted Bass (Alabama subspecies)" "only from Turkey" ...
head(WSlit)
#>                      species  units      type ref measure method min.len
#> 1                Aegean Chub metric quadratic  75      TL    EmP      70
#> 2 African Sharptooth Catfish metric quadratic  75      TL    EmP     180
#> 3               Alabama Bass metric    linear  75      TL    RLP     100
#> 4                Ankara Nase metric quadratic  75      TL    EmP      70
#> 5            Arctic Grayling metric    linear  75      TL    RLP     150
#> 6            Arctic Grayling metric    linear  75      TL    EmP     150
#>   max.len     int  slope    quad                  source
#> 1     220  -3.801 1.7830  0.3290 Giannetto et al. (2012)
#> 2     450  -3.668 1.8850  0.2087  Emiroglu et al. (2018)
#> 3      NA  -5.598 3.2904      NA   Dicenzo et al. (1995)
#> 4     240 -10.017 7.4020 -0.9710  Emiroglu et al. (2020)
#> 5      NA  -5.241 3.0830      NA    Gilham et al. (2021)
#> 6      NA  -5.279 3.0960      NA    Gilham et al. (2021)
#>                                                                                            comment
#> 1                                                                                             none
#> 2                                                           only from Sakarya River Basin (Turkey)
#> 3 min.len not made clear (assumed same as Spotted Bass); same as Spotted Bass (Alabama subspecies)
#> 4                                                                                 only from Turkey
#> 5                                           authors note that either RLP or EmP method may be used
#> 6                                           authors note that either RLP or EmP method may be used