Ages and lengths for Red Drum from the Atlantic Coast.

Description

Assigned ages (from otoliths) and fork lengths of Red Drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) from various areas of the Atlantic Coast, 1981-1988.

Format

A data frame with 393 observations on the following 2 variables.

• age: Age (from otoliths to the nearest years but recorded at half-years)

• fl: Fork length (mm)

Topic(s)

• Growth
• von Bertalanffy

Source

From (approximately) Figure 27 in Vaughan, D.S. and T.E. Helser. 1990. Status of the red drum stock of the Atlantic Coast: Stock assessment report for 1989. NOAA Technical Memorandum, NMFS-SEFC-263.

Examples

data(RedDrum)
str(RedDrum)
head(RedDrum)
plot(fl~age,data=RedDrum)