get_fish_length: Download species body-length parameters

In WorldFishCenter/peskas.timor.data.pipeline: Functions to Implement the Timor Small Scale Fisheries Data Pipeline

Download species body-length parameters

Description

This function takes species, group of species or common names as arguments and returns a data frame containing weigth-length parameters from FishBase database.

Usage

get_fish_length(taxa, rank = NULL, country_code = NULL)

Arguments

taxa	The name of the species/groups from which retrieve lengths parameters.
rank	The taxonomical ranking, can be Species, Genus, Family, or comm_name. The latter is an abbreviation for the common name of a species/group.
country_code	The code of the country associated to FishBase database, default code include Timor-Leste and Indonesia. Full list at https://www.fishbase.se/country/ListOfCountryCodes.php.

Value

A data frame containing species length parameters

Examples

## Not run: 
get_fish_length(
  taxa = "Sardine", rank = "comm_name",
  country_code = 626
)

## End(Not run)

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