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Catch-at-age for Suwanee (Micropterus notius) and Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) collected from several lakes in Florida, 2001-2002.

Format

A data frame with 39 observations on the following 5 variables.

species

Species of bass (Suwanee and Largemouth)

loc

Location (SantaFe, Wacissa, Withlacoochee, Ochlockonee)

year

Year (2001, 2002)

num

Number of fish captured

age

Age of fish at capture

Source

From Figure 2 of Bonvechio, T.F., M.S. Allen, and R.L. Cailteux. 2005. Relative Abundance, Growth, and Mortality of Suwannee Bass in Four Florida Rivers. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 25:275-283. CSV file

Topic(s)

  • Total mortality

  • Catch curve

Examples

data(BassFL)
str(BassFL)
#> 'data.frame':	39 obs. of  5 variables:
#>  $ species: Factor w/ 2 levels "Largemouth","Suwanee": 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 ...
#>  $ loc    : Factor w/ 4 levels "Ochlockonee",..: 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 ...
#>  $ year   : int  2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 ...
#>  $ num    : int  129 28 18 19 3 83 73 37 11 9 ...
#>  $ age    : int  2 3 4 5 8 2 3 4 5 6 ...
head(BassFL)
#>   species     loc year num age
#> 1 Suwanee SantaFe 2001 129   2
#> 2 Suwanee SantaFe 2001  28   3
#> 3 Suwanee SantaFe 2001  18   4
#> 4 Suwanee SantaFe 2001  19   5
#> 5 Suwanee SantaFe 2001   3   8
#> 6 Suwanee SantaFe 2002  83   2
op <- par(mfrow=c(3,2),mar=c(3,3,2,1),mgp=c(1.75,0.5,0),tcl=-0.2,pch=19)
plot(log(num)~age,data=BassFL,subset=(loc=="SantaFe" & year==2001 & species=="Suwanee"),
  ylim=c(0,max(log(num))),main="Suwanee, Santa Fe")
points(log(num)~age,data=BassFL,subset=(loc=="SantaFe" & year==2002 & species=="Suwanee"),col="red")
legend("topright",legend=c("2001","2002"),col=c("black","red"),pch=19)
plot(log(num)~age,data=BassFL,subset=loc=="Wacissa" & year==2002 & species=="Suwanee",
 ylim=c(0,max(log(num))),main="Suwanee, Wacissa")
plot(log(num)~age,data=BassFL,subset=loc=="Withlacoochee" & year==2002 & species=="Suwanee",
 ylim=c(0,max(log(num))),main="Suwanee, Withlacoochee")
plot(log(num)~age,data=BassFL,subset=(loc=="SantaFe" & year==2001 & species=="Largemouth"),
 ylim=c(0,max(log(num))),main="Largemouth, Santa Fe")
points(log(num)~age,data=BassFL,subset=(loc=="SantaFe" & year==2002 & species=="Largemouth"),
 col="red")
legend("topright",legend=c("2001","2002"),col=c("black","red"),pch=19)
plot(log(num)~age,data=BassFL,subset=loc=="Ochlockonee" & year==2001 & species=="Largemouth",
 ylim=c(0,max(log(num))),main="Largemouth, Ochlockonee")
points(log(num)~age,data=BassFL,subset=(loc=="Ochlockonee" & year==2002 & species=="Largemouth"),
 col="red")
legend("topright",legend=c("2001","2002"),col=c("black","red"),pch=19)
par(op)