goosefish: Mean Length and Numbers of Lengths for Northern Goosefish, 1963-2002
Description
The goosefish data frame has 40 rows and 3 columns.
The mean lengths (mlen) by year and number (ss) of observations for length>=smallest length at first capture (Lc)
for northern goosefish used in Gedamke and Hoenig (2006)
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
- year
- year code
- mlen
- mean length of goosefish, total length (cm)
- ss
- number of samples used to calculate mean length
Source
Gedamke, T. and J. M. Hoenig. 2006. Estimating mortality from mean length
data in nonequilibrium situations, with application to the assessment of goosefish. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 135:476-487