Menhaden1 {FSAdata}

Catch-at-age for Gulf Menhaden, 1964-2004.

Description

Estimated catch-at-age for Gulf Menhaden (Brevoortia patronus), 1964-2004 from the reduction fishery in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.

Format

A data frame with 41 observations on the following 7 variables.

year

Year of capture.

age0

Estimated catch (millions) of age-0 fish.

age1

Estimated catch (millions) of age-1 fish.

age2

Estimated catch (millions) of age-2 fish.

age3

Estimated catch (millions) of age-3 fish.

age4

Estimated catch (millions) of age-4 fish.

age5

Estimated catch (millions) of age-5 fish.

age6

Estimated catch (millions) of age-6 fish.

Topic(s)

• Mortality

• Catch curve

Source

From Table 2 in Vaughan, D.S., K.W. Shertzer, and J.W. Smith. 2007. Gulf menhaden (Brevoortia patronus) in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico: Fishery characteristics and biological reference points for management. Fisheries Research 83:263-275. CSV file

Examples

data(Menhaden1)
str(Menhaden1)
head(Menhaden1)
ages <- 0:6
# Extract one year, delete year column (the -1), and transpose to be a vector
ct <- t(Menhaden1[Menhaden1$year==1974,-1])
plot(ct~ages,pch=16,type="b",xlab="Age",ylab="Est. Catch (Millions)",main="year==1974")