Ages of Yellowtail Flounder assigned from scales and otoliths.

Description

Ages of commercially caught Georges Bank Yellowtail Flounder (Limanda ferruginea) as determined by scales, whole otoliths, or otolith cross-sections.

Format

A data frame with 27 paired observations on the following 3 variables.

• scale: Ages assigned from scales
• whole: Ages assigned from whole otoliths

• cross: Ages assigned from cross-sections of otoliths

Topic(s)

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

Source

From tables in Annex 3 of Walsh, S.J. and J. Burnett. 2002. The Canada-United States yellowtail flounder age reading workshop: 28-30 November2000, St. John's, Newfoundland. North Atlantic Fisheries Organization. Scientific Council Studies 35:1-59.

Examples

data(YTFlounder)
str(YTFlounder)
head(YTFlounder)
op <- par(mfrow=c(2,2),pch=19)
plot(scale~whole,data=YTFlounder)
plot(scale~cross,data=YTFlounder)
plot(whole~cross,data=YTFlounder)
par(op)