Lengths and weights for Pallid Sturgeon from four locations in the Missouri River.

Description

Lengths (standard, fork, and total) and weights for Pallid Sturgion (Scaphirhynchus albus) collected at four locations in the Missouri River drainage.

Format

A data frame with 30 observations on the following 7 variables:

• date: Date of collection

• sl: Standard length (mm)
• fl: Fork length (mm)

• tl: Total length (mm)

• w: Weight (g)
• status: Living status of fish at time of collection (Frozen, Live, Dead).

• loc: Location of fish collection (NB=Nebraska, SD=South Dakota, ND=North Dakota, MT=Montana)

Topic(s)

• Weight-Length
• Length Conversion

Source

From Table 1 in Keenlyne, K.D. and S.J. Maxwell. 1993. Length conversions and length-weight relations for pallid sturgeon. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 13:395-397.

Examples

data(Pallid)
str(Pallid)
head(Pallid)
op <- par(mfrow=c(2,2),pch=19)
## four (of many possible) examples
plot(w~tl,data=Pallid,subset=loc=="NB",main="Nebraska")
plot(w~tl,data=Pallid,subset=loc=="SD",main="South Dakota")
plot(w~tl,data=Pallid,subset=loc=="ND",main="North Dakota")
plot(w~tl,data=Pallid,subset=loc=="MT",main="Montana")
par(op)