Length-at-marking and recapture and time-at-large of Rainbow Trout.

Description

Length-at-marking and recapture and time-at-large for Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) from the Kenai River, Alaska.

Format

A data frame with 102 observations on the following 3 variables:

• Lr: Length (mm) at recapture.

• Lm: Length (mm) at marking.

• dt: Time-at-large (yrs).

Topic(s)

• Growth
• von Bertalanffy
• Fabens method

Source

From Table 4.10 in Quinn, T.J. and R.B. Deriso. 1999. Quantitative Fish Dynamics. Oxford University Press. 560 pages. This table is a 1/3rd subsample of the actual data presented in Baker, T.T., R. Lafferty, and T.J. Quinn II. 1991. A general growth model for mark-recapture data. Fisheries Research 11:257-281.

Examples

data(RBTroutKenai)
str(RBTroutKenai)
head(RBTroutKenai)
plot((Lr-Lm)~dt,data=RBTroutKenai)