FSAdata (version 0.3.0)

WhitefishGSL: Catch-at-age of Great Slave Lake Whitefish (commercial) by area.

Description

Age composition of commercial Whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) catches for five areas of Great Slave Lake.

source

From Table 19 of Mosenko, R.W., and G. Low. 1980. Data from the commercial fishery for lake whitefish Coregonus clupeaformis (Mitchill), on Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, 1979. Canadian Data Report of Fisheries And Aquatic Sciences, No. 194.

Topic(s)

• Mortality
• Catch curve

concept

Mortality 'Catch Curve'

Examples

data(WhitefishGSL)
str(WhitefishGSL)
head(WhitefishGSL)
op <- par(mfrow=c(3,2),pch=19)
plot(log(area.IE)~age,data=WhitefishGSL)
plot(log(area.II)~age,data=WhitefishGSL)
plot(log(area.IV)~age,data=WhitefishGSL)
plot(log(area.V)~age,data=WhitefishGSL)
plot(log(area.IW)~age,data=WhitefishGSL)
par(op)

# can be reshaped to 'long' format with
library(reshape)
WhitefishGSL1 <- melt(WhitefishGSL,id.vars="age")
names(WhitefishGSL1) <- c("age","area","number")