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Lengths, weights, and sex for Cisco (Coregonus artedii) from Trout Lake, WI, 1981-2006. Fish were collected with a variety of gears.

Format

A data frame of 8594 observations on the following 8 variables:

lakeid

Lake name (all TR=Trout Lake)

year4

Year of capture

sampledate

Date of capture

gearid

Capture gear type

spname

Species name (all CISCO)

length

Total length (nearest mm) at capture

weight

Weight (nearest 0.1 or 1 g) at capture

sex

Sex (F=Female, I=Immature, M=Male)

Source

Obtained from query to North Temperate Lakes LTER data portal at the University of Wisconsin Center for Limnology. CSV file

Topic(s)

  • Weight-Length

  • Length Frequency

Examples

data(CiscoTL)
str(CiscoTL)
#> 'data.frame':	8594 obs. of  8 variables:
#>  $ lakeid    : Factor w/ 1 level "TR": 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
#>  $ year4     : int  1981 1981 1981 1981 1981 1981 1981 1981 1981 1981 ...
#>  $ sampledate: Factor w/ 59 levels "7/19/2004","7/20/2004",..: 48 47 48 51 51 51 51 48 48 47 ...
#>  $ gearid    : Factor w/ 9 levels "ELFISH","TRAMML",..: 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 ...
#>  $ spname    : Factor w/ 1 level "CISCO": 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
#>  $ length    : int  140 146 147 153 150 152 146 153 156 176 ...
#>  $ weight    : num  21.4 22.3 23.3 23.5 24 24 24.5 25.9 26.5 35.8 ...
#>  $ sex       : Factor w/ 3 levels "F","I","M": 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
head(CiscoTL)
#>   lakeid year4 sampledate gearid spname length weight sex
#> 1     TR  1981  8/11/1981 VGN032  CISCO    140   21.4   F
#> 2     TR  1981  8/10/1981 VGN032  CISCO    146   22.3   F
#> 3     TR  1981  8/11/1981 VGN032  CISCO    147   23.3   F
#> 4     TR  1981  8/19/1981 VGN032  CISCO    153   23.5   F
#> 5     TR  1981  8/19/1981 VGN032  CISCO    150   24.0   F
#> 6     TR  1981  8/19/1981 VGN032  CISCO    152   24.0   F
op <- par(mfrow=c(2,2),pch=19)
plot(weight~length,data=CiscoTL,subset=sex=="F",main="Female")
plot(weight~length,data=CiscoTL,subset=sex=="M",main="Male")
plot(weight~length,data=CiscoTL,subset=sex=="I",main="Immature")
par(op)