Ages of Striped Bass assigned from scales and otoliths.

Description

Ages assigned to the scales and otoliths of Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis).

Format

A data frame of 451 observations on the following 2 variables:

• scale: Ages assigned to scales
• otolith: Ages assigned to otoliths

Topic(s)

• Age Comparison
• Age Precision
• Age Bias
• Ageing Error

Source

From Figure 6 in Chapter 10 (Striped Bass) of the VMRC Final Report on Finfish Ageing, 2003 by the Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology at Old Dominion University.

See Also

StripedBass4 and StripedBass5.

Examples

data(StripedBass6)
str(StripedBass6)
head(StripedBass6)
plot(scale~otolith,data=StripedBass6)
xtabs(~otolith+scale,data=StripedBass6)