SnapperHG2: Ages (subsample) and lengths (all fish) for Snapper.

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

Ages (subsample) and lengths (all fish) for Snapper.

Description

A large sample (approximately fixed sample size per length interval) of Snapper (Pagrus auratus) were aged, with the remainder of the fish just measured for length. Note that age-16 is actually age 16+ and length 60 is for 60-64 cm and 65 is for 65+ cm.

Format

A data frame of 6724 observations on the following 2 variables:

len

Measured lengths (cm)

age

Ages assigned

Topic(s)

• Age-Length Key

Source

Recreated from summarized results in Table 8.3 of Quinn, T. J. and R. B. Deriso. 1999. Quantitative Fish Dynamics. Oxford University Press, New York, NY. 542 p. CSV file

See Also

See the same data in summarized format as alkdata in fishmethods.

Examples

data(SnapperHG2)
str(SnapperHG2)
head(SnapperHG2)

## Extract the aged sample
sn2.aged <- subset(SnapperHG2,!is.na(age))
str(sn2.aged)

## Extract the length sample
sn2.length <- subset(SnapperHG2,is.na(age))
str(sn2.length)

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