FSAdata (version 0.3.3)

BullTroutRML2: Ages and lengths of Bull Trout from two Rocky Mountain lakes at two times.

Description

Assigned ages (from otoliths) and fork lengths of Bull Trout (Salvelinus confluentis) from two Rocky Mountain lakes in Alberta, CAN before and after a regulation change.

Format

A data frame with 96 observations on the following 4 variables:

age

Age (from otoliths).

fl

Fork length (mm).

lake

Lake (Harrison and Osprey).

era

Era of collection (1977-80 and 1997-01). See details.

Source

From (approximately) Figure 2 of Parker, B.R., D.W. Schindler, F.M. Wilhelm, and D.B. Donald. 2007. Bull trout population responses to reductions in angler effort and retention limits. North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 27:848-859. [Was (is?) from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233144141_Bull_Trout_Population_Responses_to_Reductions_in_Angler_Effort_and_Retention_Limits.]

Topic(s)

• Growth
• Von Bertalanffy growth model

Examples

data(BullTroutRML2)
str(BullTroutRML2)
head(BullTroutRML2)
op <- par(mfrow=c(2,2),pch=19)
plot(fl~age,data=BullTroutRML2,subset=lake=="Harrison" & era=="1977-80",main="Harrison, 1977-80")
plot(fl~age,data=BullTroutRML2,subset=lake=="Harrison" & era=="1997-01",main="Harrison, 1997-2001")
plot(fl~age,data=BullTroutRML2,subset=lake=="Osprey" & era=="1977-80",main="Osprey, 1977-80")
plot(fl~age,data=BullTroutRML2,subset=lake=="Osprey" & era=="1997-01",main="Osprey, 1997-2001")
par(op)