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Catch-at-age for Bluegill and Redear Sunfish in Florida.

Source: R/SunfishLP.R
SunfishLP.Rd

The percent frequency of of Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) and Redear Sunfish (Lepomis microlophus) caught in Lake Panasoffkee, FL.

Format

A data frame with 12 observations on the following 3 variables:

species

Species of sunfish (bluegill or redear)

age

Age (yrs from otoliths)

perc.freq

Percent frequency of fish collected in 1998

Source

From (approximately) Figure 2 in Crawford, S. and M.S. Allen. 2006. Fishing and natural mortality of Bluegills and Redear Sunfish at Lake Panasoffkee, Florida: Implications for size limits. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 26:42-51. Note that I added a percentage for age-1 fish (the difference in percentages from Fig. 2). CSV file

Topic(s)

  • Mortality

  • Catch curve

Examples

data(SunfishLP)
str(SunfishLP)
#> 'data.frame':	12 obs. of  3 variables:
#>  $ species  : Factor w/ 2 levels "bluegill","redear": 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 ...
#>  $ age      : int  1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 ...
#>  $ perc.freq: num  10.8 57.4 18.1 6.7 3.3 0.8 47.8 30 18.2 2.7 ...
head(SunfishLP)
#>    species age perc.freq
#> 1 bluegill   1      10.8
#> 2 bluegill   2      57.4
#> 3 bluegill   3      18.1
#> 4 bluegill   4       6.7
#> 5 bluegill   5       3.3
#> 6 bluegill   6       0.8
plot(log(perc.freq)~age,data=SunfishLP)