FSAdata (version 0.3.3)

Pallid: Lengths and weights for Pallid Sturgeon from four locations in the Missouri River.

Description

Lengths (standard, fork, and total) and weights for Pallid Sturgion (Scaphirhynchus albus) collected at four locations in the Missouri River drainage.

Format

A data frame with 30 observations on the following 7 variables:

date

Date of collection

sl

Standard length (mm)

fl

Fork length (mm)

tl

Total length (mm)

w

Weight (g)

status

Living status of fish at time of collection (Frozen, Live, Dead).

loc

Location of fish collection (NB=Nebraska, SD=South Dakota, ND=North Dakota, MT=Montana)

Source

From Table 1 in Keenlyne, K.D. and S.J. Maxwell. 1993. Length conversions and length-weight relations for pallid sturgeon. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 13:395-397.

Topic(s)

• Weight-Length
• Length Conversion

Examples

data(Pallid)
str(Pallid)
head(Pallid)
op <- par(mfrow=c(2,2),pch=19)
## four (of many possible) examples
plot(w~tl,data=Pallid,subset=loc=="NB",main="Nebraska")
plot(w~tl,data=Pallid,subset=loc=="SD",main="South Dakota")
plot(w~tl,data=Pallid,subset=loc=="ND",main="North Dakota")
plot(w~tl,data=Pallid,subset=loc=="MT",main="Montana")
par(op)