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Length-at-marking and recapture and time-at-large for Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) originally captured in Spring 2010 from Inch Lake, Wisconsin.

Format

A data frame with 61 observations on the following 5 variables:

tag

Unique Floy tag number.

lenMark

length (mm) at tagging.

lenRecap

Length (mm) at recapture.

deltaLen

Change in length (mm).

deltaTime

Time-at-large (yrs).

Source

These unpublished data are from Derek H. Ogle, Northland College. Do not use for other than educational purposes without permission from the source. CSV file

Topic(s)

  • Growth

  • von Bertalanffy

  • Fabens method

Examples

data(BluegillIL)
str(BluegillIL)
#> 'data.frame':	61 obs. of  5 variables:
#>  $ tag      : int  1171 1197 1281 1283 1304 1313 1326 1326 1326 1327 ...
#>  $ lenMark  : int  226 226 239 229 185 152 218 218 218 175 ...
#>  $ lenRecap : int  241 249 244 246 213 203 236 239 251 211 ...
#>  $ deltaLen : int  15 23 5 17 28 51 18 21 33 36 ...
#>  $ deltaTime: num  1.97 1.995 0.926 0.973 1.016 ...
head(BluegillIL)
#>    tag lenMark lenRecap deltaLen deltaTime
#> 1 1171     226      241       15 1.9698630
#> 2 1197     226      249       23 1.9945205
#> 3 1281     239      244        5 0.9260274
#> 4 1283     229      246       17 0.9726027
#> 5 1304     185      213       28 1.0164384
#> 6 1313     152      203       51 1.1041096
plot((lenRecap-lenMark)~deltaTime,data=BluegillIL)