Ages, lengths, and sexes of European Perch.
Assigned ages, measured fork lengths, and observed sexes for European Perch (Perca fluviatilis) from Lake Tjuekemeer (The Netherlands).
A data frame of 69 observations on the following 3 variables:
Fork lengths (cm).
Assigned ages.
Sex (female, male).
Growth
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From (approximately) Figure 2 in Mooij, W.M., J.M. Van Rooij, and S. Wijnhoven. 1999. Analysis and comparison of fish growth from small samples of length-at-age data: Detection of sexual dimorphism in Eurasian perch as an example. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 128:483-490.
data(EuroPerchTJ) str(EuroPerchTJ) head(EuroPerchTJ) op <- par(mfrow=c(1,2),pch=19) plot(fl~age,data=EuroPerchTJ,subset=sex=="female",main="Female") plot(fl~age,data=EuroPerchTJ,subset=sex=="male",main="Male") par(op)
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