SunfishLP: Catch-at-age for Bluegill and Redear Sunfish in Florida.

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

Catch-at-age for Bluegill and Redear Sunfish in Florida.

Description

The percent frequency of of Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) and Redear Sunfish (Lepomis microlophus) caught in Lake Panasoffkee, FL.

Format

A data frame with 12 observations on the following 3 variables:

species

Species of sunfish (bluegill or redear)

age

Age (yrs from otoliths)

perc.freq

Percent frequency of fish collected in 1998

Topic(s)

• Mortality

• Catch curve

Source

From (approximately) Figure 2 in Crawford, S. and M.S. Allen. 2006. Fishing and natural mortality of Bluegills and Redear Sunfish at Lake Panasoffkee, Florida: Implications for size limits. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 26:42-51. Note that I added a percentage for age-1 fish (the difference in percentages from Fig. 2). CSV file

Examples

data(SunfishLP)
str(SunfishLP)
head(SunfishLP)
plot(log(perc.freq)~age,data=SunfishLP)

FSAdata documentation built on Aug. 24, 2023, 5:06 p.m.