goosefish {fishmethods}

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)

Usage

goosefish

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