BrookTroutOnt: Summarized single mark-recapture data for Brook Trout across...

BrookTroutOntR Documentation

Summarized single mark-recapture data for Brook Trout across many years.

Description

The number of Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) marked, captured, and recaptured for several years on Meach Lake in central Ontario.

Format

A data frame with 7 observations on the following 5 variables.

year

Year of the collection

mark

Total number of fish marked on the marking run

catch

Total number of fish caught on the recapture run

recap

Total number of previously marked fish in the recapture run

correction

Number of age-1 fish to be added to final estimated based on mark-recapture to correct for gear selectivity of age-1 fish

Topic(s)

  • Population Size

  • Abundance

  • Mark-Recapture

  • Capture-Recapture

  • Petersen

Source

From Table 1 of Curry, R.A., C. Brady, and G.E. Morgan. 2003. Effects of Recreational Fishing on the Population Dynamics of Lake-Dwelling Brook Trout. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 23:35-47. CSV file

Examples

data(BrookTroutOnt)
str(BrookTroutOnt)
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FSAdata documentation built on Aug. 24, 2023, 5:06 p.m.