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BrookTroutOnt: Summarized single mark-recapture data for Brook Trout across many years.

Description

The number of Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) marked, captured, and recaptured for several years on Meach Lake in central Ontario.

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 7 observations on the following 5 variables.
year
Year of the collection
mark
Total number of fish marked on the marking run
catch
Total number of fish caught on the recapture run
recap
Total number of previously marked fish in the recapture run
correction
Number of age-1 fish to be added to final estimated based on mark-recapture to correct for gear selectivity of age-1 fish

Source

From Table 1 of Curry, R.A., C. Brady, and G.E. Morgan. 2003. Effects of Recreational Fishing on the Population Dynamics of Lake-Dwelling Brook Trout. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 23:35-47.

Topic(s)

  • Population Size
  • Abundance
  • Mark-Recapture
  • Capture-Recapture
  • Petersen

Examples

Run this code
data(BrookTroutOnt)
str(BrookTroutOnt)
head(BrookTroutOnt)

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