American Fisheries Society Computer User Section Software Description

AFSCUS-M1: FishCalc89 and DisBCal89

FishCalc89-DisBCal89 - Fishery Analysis Tools for length-frequencies, Wr, length-age frequencies, and back calculations.

by: Missouri Department of Conservation
version: 1.0
Date: 10/13/1989 (reproduced 1993 by AFSCUS)
Requires: CGA compatible video graphics adapter
Overall rating (10 point scale): not rated
Printed Documentation included? Yes
Last Review: not reviewed
Cost: $40
NOTE: This is a commercial software package (only available on disks & comes with a 396 page manual).

The DisBCal89 portion of this package is used to measure projections of bony parts with a digitizer, explore the relationship between body length and bony part size, and back-calculate body lengths. The FishCalc89 portion performs cross tabulation and high-resolution graphics on fish length, weight, sex code and age. Other output includes length structure and population density tables and charts, CPUE and percent of sample by length interval, PSD, RSD and Gablehouse's length categories, age composition, mean lengths at age, year-class contribution to each length class, relative weights and percent deviation from relative weights for each length class.

Copyright 2007,     updated 01.30.2007

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