Catch-at-age for Bull Trout in Trestle Creek, ID.

Description

Catch-at-age (actually carcasses-at-age) for Bull Trout (Salvelinus confluentis) in Trestle Creek, ID.

Format

A data frame with 6 observations on the following 2 variables.

• age: A numeric vector of assigned ages (from otoliths).
• carcasses: A numeric vector of number of carcasses found in and along Trestle Creek.

Topic(s)

• Mortality
• Catch curve

Source

From (approximately) Figure 4a in Downs, C.C., D. Horan, E. Morgan-Harris, and R. Jakubowski. 2006. Spawning demographics and juvenile dispersal of an adfluvial bull trout population in Trestle Creek, Idaho. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 26:190-200.

Examples

data(BullTroutTC)
str(BullTroutTC)
head(BullTroutTC)
plot(log(carcasses)~age,data=BullTroutTC)