FSAdata (version 0.3.0)

YTFlounder: Ages of Yellowtail Flounder assigned from scales and otoliths.

Description

Ages of commercially caught Georges Bank Yellowtail Flounder (Limanda ferruginea) as determined by scales, whole otoliths, or otolith cross-sections.

source

Extracted from tables in Annex 3 of Walsh, S.J. and J. Burnett. 2002. The Canada-United States yellowtail flounder age reading workshop: 28-30 November2000, St. John's, Newfoundland. North Atlantic Fisheries Organization. Scientific Council Studies 35:1-59.

Topic(s)

• Age comparison
• Age precision
• Age Bias
• Ageing error

concept

Age Precision Bias 'Age Comparison'

Examples

data(YTFlounder)
str(YTFlounder)
head(YTFlounder)
op <- par(mfrow=c(2,2),pch=19)
plot(scale~whole,data=YTFlounder)
plot(scale~cross,data=YTFlounder)
plot(whole~cross,data=YTFlounder)
par(op)