Catch-effort data for Smallmouth Bass (Micropterus dolomieu) in Little Silver Lake, Ont.

Format

A data frame with 10 observations on the following 3 variables:

day

Day of the catch

catch

Number of smallmouth bass caught

effort

Number of traps set per day

Source

From Omand, D.N. 1951. A study of populations of fish based on catch-effort statistics. Journal of Wildlife Management, 15:88-98.

Topic(s)

  • Population size

  • Abundance

  • Depletion methods

  • Leslie method

  • DeLury method

  • Catchability

See also

Used in depletion examples.

Examples

str(SMBassLS)
#> 'data.frame': 10 obs. of 3 variables: #> $ day : int 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 #> $ catch : int 131 69 99 78 56 76 49 42 63 47 #> $ effort: int 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
head(SMBassLS)
#> day catch effort #> 1 1 131 7 #> 2 2 69 7 #> 3 3 99 7 #> 4 4 78 7 #> 5 5 56 7 #> 6 6 76 7