FSAdata (version 0.3.3)

BassFL: Catch-at-age for Suwanee and Largemouth Bass.

Description

Catch-at-age for Suwanee (Micropterus notius) and Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) collected from several lakes in Florida, 2001-2002.

Format

A data frame with 39 observations on the following 5 variables.

species

Species of bass (Suwanee and Largemouth)

loc

Location (SantaFe, Wacissa, Withlacoochee, Ochlockonee)

year

Year (2001, 2002)

num

Number of fish captured

age

Age of fish at capture

Source

From Figure 2 of Bonvechio, T.F., M.S. Allen, and R.L. Cailteux. 2005. Relative Abundance, Growth, and Mortality of Suwannee Bass in Four Florida Rivers. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 25:275-283. [Was (is?) from http://sfrc.ufl.edu/allenlab/publications/2005bonvechio_allen_cailteux.pdf.]

Topic(s)

• Total mortality
• Catch curve

Examples

data(BassFL)
str(BassFL)
head(BassFL)
op <- par(mfrow=c(3,2),mar=c(3,3,2,1),mgp=c(1.75,0.5,0),tcl=-0.2,pch=19)
plot(log(num)~age,data=BassFL,subset=(loc=="SantaFe" & year==2001 & species=="Suwanee"),
  ylim=c(0,max(log(num))),main="Suwanee, Santa Fe")
points(log(num)~age,data=BassFL,subset=(loc=="SantaFe" & year==2002 & species=="Suwanee"),col="red")
legend("topright",legend=c("2001","2002"),col=c("black","red"),pch=19)
plot(log(num)~age,data=BassFL,subset=loc=="Wacissa" & year==2002 & species=="Suwanee",
 ylim=c(0,max(log(num))),main="Suwanee, Wacissa")
plot(log(num)~age,data=BassFL,subset=loc=="Withlacoochee" & year==2002 & species=="Suwanee",
 ylim=c(0,max(log(num))),main="Suwanee, Withlacoochee")
plot(log(num)~age,data=BassFL,subset=(loc=="SantaFe" & year==2001 & species=="Largemouth"),
 ylim=c(0,max(log(num))),main="Largemouth, Santa Fe")
points(log(num)~age,data=BassFL,subset=(loc=="SantaFe" & year==2002 & species=="Largemouth"),
 col="red")
legend("topright",legend=c("2001","2002"),col=c("black","red"),pch=19)
plot(log(num)~age,data=BassFL,subset=loc=="Ochlockonee" & year==2001 & species=="Largemouth",
 ylim=c(0,max(log(num))),main="Largemouth, Ochlockonee")
points(log(num)~age,data=BassFL,subset=(loc=="Ochlockonee" & year==2002 & species=="Largemouth"),
 col="red")
legend("topright",legend=c("2001","2002"),col=c("black","red"),pch=19)
par(op)