Catch-at-age for Suwanee and Largemouth Bass.

Description

Catch-at-age for Suwanee (Micropterus notius) and Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) collected from several lakes in Florida, 2001-2002.

Format

A data frame with 39 observations on the following 5 variables.

• species: Species of bass (Suwanee and Largemouth)
• loc: Location (SantaFe, Wacissa, Withlacoochee, Ochlockonee)
• year: Year (2001, 2002)

• num: Number of fish captured
• age: Age of fish at capture

Topic(s)

• Total mortality
• Catch curve

Source

From Figure 2 of Bonvechio, T.F., M.S. Allen, and R.L. Cailteux. 2005. Relative Abundance, Growth, and Mortality of Suwannee Bass in Four Florida Rivers. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 25:275-283. [Was (is?) from http://sfrc.ufl.edu/allenlab/publications/2005bonvechio_allen_cailteux.pdf.]

Examples

data(BassFL)
str(BassFL)
head(BassFL)
op <- par(mfrow=c(3,2),mar=c(3,3,2,1),mgp=c(1.75,0.5,0),tcl=-0.2,pch=19)
plot(log(num)~age,data=BassFL,subset=(loc=="SantaFe" & year==2001 & species=="Suwanee"),
  ylim=c(0,max(log(num))),main="Suwanee, Santa Fe")
points(log(num)~age,data=BassFL,subset=(loc=="SantaFe" & year==2002 & species=="Suwanee"),col="red")
legend("topright",legend=c("2001","2002"),col=c("black","red"),pch=19)
plot(log(num)~age,data=BassFL,subset=loc=="Wacissa" & year==2002 & species=="Suwanee",
 ylim=c(0,max(log(num))),main="Suwanee, Wacissa")
plot(log(num)~age,data=BassFL,subset=loc=="Withlacoochee" & year==2002 & species=="Suwanee",
 ylim=c(0,max(log(num))),main="Suwanee, Withlacoochee")
plot(log(num)~age,data=BassFL,subset=(loc=="SantaFe" & year==2001 & species=="Largemouth"),
 ylim=c(0,max(log(num))),main="Largemouth, Santa Fe")
points(log(num)~age,data=BassFL,subset=(loc=="SantaFe" & year==2002 & species=="Largemouth"),
 col="red")
legend("topright",legend=c("2001","2002"),col=c("black","red"),pch=19)
plot(log(num)~age,data=BassFL,subset=loc=="Ochlockonee" & year==2001 & species=="Largemouth",
 ylim=c(0,max(log(num))),main="Largemouth, Ochlockonee")
points(log(num)~age,data=BassFL,subset=(loc=="Ochlockonee" & year==2002 & species=="Largemouth"),
 col="red")
legend("topright",legend=c("2001","2002"),col=c("black","red"),pch=19)
par(op)