Ages and lengths of Araucanian Herring from Chilean waters.

Ages and lengths of Araucanian Herring (Strangomera bentincki) from Chilean waters.

Format

A data frame with the following 2 variables:

age: Age in years.
len: Total length (to nearest 0.5 cm).

Source

From figure 9 of Cubillos, L.A., D.F. Arcosa, D.A. Bucareya, M.T. Canalesa. 2001. Seasonal growth of small pelagic fish off Talcahuano, Chile (37S, 73W): A consequence of their reproductive strategy to seasonal upwelling? Aquatic Living Resources, 14:115-124. CSV file

Topic(s)

Growth
Seasonal Growth
von Bertalanffy
Somers model

Examples

data(AHerringChile)
str(AHerringChile)
#> 'data.frame':	120 obs. of  2 variables:
#>  $ age: num  0.25 0.33 0.33 0.33 0.33 0.42 0.42 0.42 0.42 0.42 ...
#>  $ len: num  5.5 6.5 6 5.5 5 7 7 6.5 6 6 ...
head(AHerringChile)
#>    age len
#> 1 0.25 5.5
#> 2 0.33 6.5
#> 3 0.33 6.0
#> 4 0.33 5.5
#> 5 0.33 5.0
#> 6 0.42 7.0
plot(len~age,data=AHerringChile)