Length-at-marking and recapture and time-at-large of Rainbow Trout.

Length-at-marking and recapture and time-at-large for Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) from the Kenai River, Alaska.

Format

A data frame with 102 observations on the following 3 variables:

Lr: Length (mm) at recapture.
Lm: Length (mm) at marking.
dt: Time-at-large (yrs).

Source

From Table 4.10 in Quinn, T.J. and R.B. Deriso. 1999. Quantitative Fish Dynamics. Oxford University Press. 560 pages. This table is a 1/3rd subsample of the actual data presented in Baker, T.T., R. Lafferty, and T.J. Quinn II. 1991. A general growth model for mark-recapture data. Fisheries Research 11:257-281. CSV file

Topic(s)

Growth
von Bertalanffy
Fabens method

Examples

data(RBTroutKenai)
str(RBTroutKenai)
#> 'data.frame':	102 obs. of  3 variables:
#>  $ Lr: int  249 272 279 295 305 312 320 324 330 334 ...
#>  $ Lm: int  239 259 244 281 300 241 218 234 321 245 ...
#>  $ dt: num  0.175 0.06 0.211 0.093 0.06 ...
head(RBTroutKenai)
#>    Lr  Lm    dt
#> 1 249 239 0.175
#> 2 272 259 0.060
#> 3 279 244 0.211
#> 4 295 281 0.093
#> 5 305 300 0.060
#> 6 312 241 0.999
plot((Lr-Lm)~dt,data=RBTroutKenai)