Catch and effort for three Snapper species in a depletion experiment.

Description

Catch and effort for three Snapper species (Pristipomoides zonatus, Pristipomoides auricilla, and Etelis carbunculUs) in a depletion experiment around Pathfinder Reef in the Mariana Archipelago.

Format

A data frame with 13 observations on the following 5 variables.

• date: Date (1984)
• effort: Fishing effort (line-hours of a bottom hand-line)
• Pzonatus: Catch of Pristipomoides zonatus

• Pauricilla: Catch of Pristipomoides auricilla
• Ecarbunculus: Catch of Etelis carbunculUs

Topic(s)

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

Source

From Table 3 of Polovina, J.J. 1985. A variable catchability version of the Leslie model with application to an intensive fishing experiment on a multispecies stock. Fishery Bulletin 84:423-428. [Was (is?) from https://swfsc.noaa.gov/publications/CR/1986/8679.PDF.]

Examples

data(Pathfinder)
str(Pathfinder)
head(Pathfinder)