Catch and effort data for male Blue Crabs.

Description

Catch and effort data for a population of male Blue Crabs (Callinectes sapidus) for a 12-week period.

Format

A data frame with 12 observations on the following 2 variables.

• catch: A numeric vector of pounds of Blue Crab caught.
• effort: A numeric vector of lines used per day to catch Blue Crab.

Topic(s)

• Population size
• Abundance
• Depletion
• Leslie method
• DeLury method
• Catchability

Source

From Fischler, K.J. 1965. The use of catch-effort, catch-sampling, and tagging data to estimate a population of blue crabs. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 94:287-310.

Examples

data(BlueCrab)
str(BlueCrab)
BlueCrab