Ages and lengths of Blue Catfish.

Description

Ages and total lengths of Blue Catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) collected form the Wilson Reservoir on the Tennessee River, AL.

Format

A data frame with 119 observations on the following 2 variables.

• age: Age (from otoliths)
• tl: Total length (mm)

Topic(s)

• Growth
• von Bertalanffy

Source

From (approximately) Figure 2 of Maceina, M.J. 2007. Use of piecewise nonlinear models to estimate variable size-related mortality rates. North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 27:971-977.

Examples

data(BlueCatfish)
str(BlueCatfish)
head(BlueCatfish)
plot(tl~age,data=BlueCatfish)