Ages (subsample) and lengths (all fish) for Creek Chub.
Ages (subsample) and lengths (all fish) for Creek Chub (Semotilus atromaculatus).
A data frame with 218 observations on the following 2 variables.
Total length (mm)
Assigned ages (yrs; from scales)
As many as 10 fish per 10 mm length interval were sampled for age assignment with scales.
Age-Length Key
Growth
Used in the Introductory Fisheries Analyses with R book.
Recreated (random digits were added to construct mm lengths from the cm length bins) from information in Box 15.2 of Quist, M.C., Pegg, M.A., and DeVries, D.R. 2012. Age and growth. In Zale, A.V., Parrish, D.L., and Sutton, T.M., editors. Fisheries Techniques, Third Edition, chapter 15, pages 677-731. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD.
data(CreekChub) str(CreekChub) head(CreekChub) xtabs(~age,data=CreekChub) plot(len~age,data=CreekChub)
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