AHerringChile {FSAdata}

Ages and lengths of Araucanian Herring from Chilean waters.

Description

Ages and lengths of Araucanian Herring (Strangomera bentincki) from Chilean waters.

Format

A data frame with the following 2 variables:

age

Age in years.

len

Total length (to nearest 0.5 cm).

Topic(s)

• Growth

• Seasonal Growth

• von Bertalanffy

• Somers model

Source

From figure 9 of Cubillos, L.A., D.F. Arcosa, D.A. Bucareya, M.T. Canalesa. 2001. Seasonal growth of small pelagic fish off Talcahuano, Chile (37S, 73W): A consequence of their reproductive strategy to seasonal upwelling? Aquatic Living Resources, 14:115-124. CSV file

Examples

data(AHerringChile)
str(AHerringChile)
head(AHerringChile)
plot(len~age,data=AHerringChile)