SardineChile {FSAdata}

Ages and lengths of two year-classes of Sardine from Chilean waters.

Description

Ages (in months) and total lengths of two year-classes of Sardine (Strangomera bentincki) from central Chilean waters.

Format

A data frame with 196 observations of the following 3 variables:

age.mon

Age in months.

tl.cm

Total length (cm).

cohort

Year-class.

Topic(s)

• Growth

• Seasonal Growth

• von Bertalanffy

• Somers model

Source

Directly from the authors 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. Data were in Figure 9. CSV file

Examples

data(SardineChile)
str(SardineChile)
head(SardineChile)
SardineChile$age <- SardineChile$age.mon/12
plot(tl.cm~age,data=SardineChile)