Biological data for Ruffe captured from the St. Louis River in 1992.
Biological data for Ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernuus) captured in the St. Louis River, Lake Superior in 1992.
A data frame of 738 observations on the following 11 variables:
A unique fish identification number (across all years, most of which are not shown in this file
Month (numeric) of capture
Day of capture
Year of capture
A unique fish identification number within the year
Grid location of capture
Total length (mm)
Weight (g)
Sex factor (female
, male
, or unknown
)
Maturity stage factor (developing
, immature
, mature
, nearly.ripe
, nearly.spent
, recovering
, ripe
, running
, spent
, unknown
, or yoy
)
Age (yrs) from scales
Length Frequency
Weight-Length
Growth
von Bertalanffy
Maturity
personal collection by the United States Geological Survey, Lake Superior Biological Station, Ashland, WI.
data(RuffeSLRH92) str(RuffeSLRH92) head(RuffeSLRH92) op <- par(mfrow=c(2,2),pch=19) hist(RuffeSLRH92$length,main="") hist(RuffeSLRH92$age,main="") plot(weight~length,data=RuffeSLRH92) plot(length~age,data=RuffeSLRH92) par(op) xtabs(~age,data=RuffeSLRH92) xtabs(~sex,data=RuffeSLRH92) tmp <- c("yoy","immature","developing","mature","nearly.ripe","ripe", "running","nearly.spent","spent","recovering","unknown") RuffeSLRH92$maturity <- ordered(RuffeSLRH92$maturity,levels=tmp) xtabs(~maturity,data=RuffeSLRH92) xtabs(~maturity+month+sex,data=RuffeSLRH92)
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