Lengths for Rainbow Smelt from Lake Michigan, 1977.

Rainbow Smelt (Osmerus mordax) fork lengths from near Grand Haven, Lake Michigan, 1977.

Format

A data frame of 3293 observations on the following 1 variable:

fl: Fork length (mm)

Source

From Brandt, S.B., J.J. Magnuson, and L.B. Crowder. 1980. Thermal habitat partitioning by fishes in Lake Michigan. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 37:1557-1564. Data was simulated (uniform distribution of values within length bin) from summarized length frequencies in http://fishbase.org/. CSV file

Topic(s)

Length Frequency
Size Structure

Examples

data(RBSmeltLM)
str(RBSmeltLM)
#> 'data.frame':	3293 obs. of  1 variable:
#>  $ fl: int  37 35 38 35 39 39 36 39 38 38 ...
head(RBSmeltLM)
#>   fl
#> 1 37
#> 2 35
#> 3 38
#> 4 35
#> 5 39
#> 6 39
hist(RBSmeltLM$fl,main="")