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SardineLK: Ages and lengths of larval Lake Tanganyika Sardine.

Description

Ages (days) and total lengths of larval Lake Tanganyika Sardine (Limnothrissa miodon) from Lake Kariba.

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 75 observations on the following 2 variables.
days
Age in days (determine from otoliths).
tl
Total length (mm within 0.1).

Source

From (approximately) Figure 3 of Mtsambiwa, M.Z. 1992. Fitting a von Bertalanffy growth model to length at age data for larval Limnothrissa miodon from Lake Kariba. Paper presented at the Symposium on biology, stock assessment, and exploitation of small pelagic fish species in the African Great Lakes region. [Was (is?) from http://www.fao.org/docrep/005/v2648e/V2648E06.htm.]

Topic(s)

  • Growth
  • von Bertalanffy

Examples

Run this code
data(SardineLK)
str(SardineLK)
head(SardineLK)
plot(tl~days,data=SardineLK)

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