DarterMahon: Catch and effort data for Fantail Darter.

In FSAdata: Data to Support Fish Stock Assessment ('FSA') Package

Catch and effort data for Fantail Darter.

Description

Catch and effort data for Fantail Darter (Etheostoma flabellare) from seven removal events conducted by Mahon (1980).

Format

A data frame with 7 observations on the following 2 variables.

catch

Catch of Fantail Darter.

effort

Constant electrofishing effort.

Details

Catch (number of fish) was recorded. Effort was a constant amount of electrofishing for each sampling event and is, thus, entered as a constant value of 1.

These data are used in many publications because the stream section was rotenoned following the removal surveys to determine a known population size of 1151 individuals.

Topic(s)

• Population size

• Abundance

• Depletion methods

• Leslie method

• DeLury method

• Catchability

Source

From Mahon, R. 1980. Accuracy of catch-effort methods for estimating fish density and biomass in streams. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 4:343-363. CSV file

Examples

data(DarterMahon)
str(DarterMahon)
head(DarterMahon)

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