Ages and lengths of Spotted Sucker.

Description

Ages and total lengths of Spotted Sucker (Minytrema melanops) collected from the Apalachicola River, Florida.

Format

A data frame with 96 observations on the following 2 variables.

• tl: Total length (mm).
• age: Age (from scales).

Topic(s)

• Growth
• von Bertalanffy

Source

From Box 5.4 in Iseley, J.J. and T.B. Grabowski. 2007. Age and Growth in Guy, C.S. and M.L. Brown, editors. Analysis and Interpretation of Freshwater Fisheries Data. American Fisheries Society. Likely originally from Grabowski, T.B., S.P. Young, J.J. Isely, and P.C. Ely. Age, growth, and reproductive biology of three catostomids from the Apalachicola River, Florida. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 3:223-237. [Was (is?) from http://www.fwspubs.org/doi/pdf/10.3996/012012-JFWM-008.]

Examples

data(SpottedSucker1)
str(SpottedSucker1)
head(SpottedSucker1)
plot(tl~age,data=SpottedSucker1)