R/SardineLK.R

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

#' @title Ages and lengths of larval Lake Tanganyika Sardine.
#' 
#' @description Ages (days) and total lengths of larval Lake Tanganyika Sardine (\emph{Limnothrissa miodon}) from Lake Kariba.
#' 
#' @name SardineLK
#' 
#' @docType data
#' 
#' @format A data frame with 75 observations on the following 2 variables.
#'  \describe{
#'    \item{days}{Age in days (determine from otoliths).}
#'    \item{tl}{Total length (mm within 0.1).} 
#'  }
#'  
#' @section Topic(s):
#'  \itemize{
#'    \item Growth
#'    \item von Bertalanffy
#'  }
#'  
#' @concept Growth
#' @concept von Bertalanffy
#' 
#' @source From (approximately) Figure 3 of Mtsambiwa, M.Z. 1992. Fitting a von Bertalanffy growth model to length at age data for larval \emph{Limnothrissa miodon} from Lake Kariba. Paper presented at the Symposium on biology, stock assessment, and exploitation of small pelagic fish species in the African Great Lakes region. [Was (is?) from http://www.fao.org/docrep/005/v2648e/V2648E06.htm.] \href{https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fishR-Core-Team/FSAdata/main/data-raw/SardineLK.csv}{CSV file}
#' 
#' @keywords datasets
#' 
#' @examples
#' data(SardineLK)
#' str(SardineLK)
#' head(SardineLK)
#' plot(tl~days,data=SardineLK)
#' 
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