Ages (days) and total lengths of larval Lake Tanganyika Sardine (Limnothrissa miodon) from Lake Kariba.
Format
A data frame with 75 observations on the following 2 variables.
- days
Age in days (determine from otoliths).
- tl
Total length (mm within 0.1).
Source
From (approximately) Figure 3 of Mtsambiwa, M.Z. 1992. Fitting a von Bertalanffy growth model to length at age data for larval Limnothrissa miodon from Lake Kariba. Paper presented at the Symposium on biology, stock assessment, and exploitation of small pelagic fish species in the African Great Lakes region. [Was (is?) from http://www.fao.org/docrep/005/v2648e/V2648E06.htm.] CSV file
Examples
data(SardineLK)
str(SardineLK)
#> 'data.frame': 75 obs. of 2 variables:
#> $ days: int 69 62 61 57 57 52 51 53 48 46 ...
#> $ tl : num 13.9 15.1 12.6 12.6 14.5 14.5 14.3 12.8 11.9 13.9 ...
head(SardineLK)
#> days tl
#> 1 69 13.9
#> 2 62 15.1
#> 3 61 12.6
#> 4 57 12.6
#> 5 57 14.5
#> 6 52 14.5
plot(tl~days,data=SardineLK)
