Description

The tanaka data frame has 138 rows and 3 columns. The number of returns and the mean times-at-large from Table 2 of Tanaka (2006) were used to generate individual times-at-large data from a random normal distributions using a CV of 0.1.

Usage

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

relyr

release year (cohort)

tal

individual times-at-large (in years)

N

Total number of releases for relear year (cohort)

Source

Tanaka, E. 2006. Simultaneous estimation of instantaneous mortality coefficients and rate of effective survivors to number of released fish using multiple sets of tagging experiments. Fisheries Science 72: 710-718.