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BrookTroutOnt

Summarized single mark-recapture data for Brook Trout across many years.

Description

The number of Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) marked, captured, and recaptured for several years on Meach Lake in central Ontario.

Format

A data frame with 7 observations on the following 5 variables.

year: Year of the collection
mark: Total number of fish marked on the marking run
catch: Total number of fish caught on the recapture run
recap: Total number of previously marked fish in the recapture run
correction: Number of age-1 fish to be added to final estimated based on mark-recapture to correct for gear selectivity of age-1 fish

Topic(s)

Population Size
Abundance
Mark-Recapture
Capture-Recapture
Petersen

Source

From Table 1 of Curry, R.A., C. Brady, and G.E. Morgan. 2003. Effects of Recreational Fishing on the Population Dynamics of Lake-Dwelling Brook Trout. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 23:35-47.

Examples

data(BrookTroutOnt)
str(BrookTroutOnt)
head(BrookTroutOnt)

FSAdata

Data to Support Fish Stock Assessment ('FSA') Package

v0.3.8

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Derek Ogle [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0370-9299>)

Initial release

2019-05-17