Biological data for Pygmy Whitefish from Dina Lake #1 (British Columbia), 2000 and 2001.

Description

Biological information for Pygmy Whitefish (Prosopium coulterii) from Dina Lake #1 (British Columbia), 2000 and 2001.

Format

A data frame with 368 observations on the following 10 variables.

• year: Year of capture (2000, 2001)
• month: Month of capture
• week: Week within a month of capture
• net_no: Unique net identification number
• fish_no: Unique fish identification number
• fl: Fork length (cm)
• tl: Total length (cm)
• wt: Weight (g)
• sex: Sex code (F=Female, M=Male, Imm=immature)
• mat: Maturity code (Imm=immature, MG=maturing, MT=mature)
• scale_age: Scale age (in years)
• oto_age: Otolith age (in years)
• USE: Should the individual be used for analyses.

Topic(s)

• Weight-Length
• Age Comparison
• Condition
• Length Frequency

Note

The tl and USE variables were added or teaching purposes only. The tl was created from fl using a known fl-tl relationship and a small random error.

Source

2000 data from Appendix 9 of J. D. McPhail and R. J. Zemlak. October 2001. Pygmy whitefish studies on Dina Lake #1, 2000. Peace/Williston Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program, Report No. 245. 36pp plus appendices. [Was (is?) from https://www.bchydro.com/pwcp/pdfs/reports/pwfwcp_report_no_245.pdf.]

2001 data from Appendix 14 of Zemlak, R.J. and J.D. McPhail. 2003. Pygmy Whitefish studies on Dina Lake #1, 2001. Peace/Williston Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program Report No. 279. 35pp plus appendices. [Was (is?) from http://a100.gov.bc.ca/appsdata/acat/documents/r39503/pwfwcp_report_no_279_1383686631923_d6d1b25e3156cee45e442c5b3f756a6a7b4bb7ad7753efb1c51dc23ac997a9a6.pdf.]

Examples

data(PygmyWFBC)
str(PygmyWFBC)
head(PygmyWFBC)