Table 2.
Summary of age-specific lengths for sexually mature brook trout in Bob's Cove river and Whale Cove river in southeastern Newfoundland, across 2009 and 2010, as well as female fecundity and egg size data for 2010 (averages across age classes reported; n = 12 for Bob's Cove river and n = 21 for Whale Cove river).
| Population | Females |
Males |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age (n) | Length1 (mm) | Fecundity | Egg size (mm) | Age (n) | Length1 (mm) | |
| Bob's Cove river | 1+ (2) | 81.5 (67, 96) | 1+ (3) | 100.7 ± 1.9 | ||
| 2+ (21) | 108.6 ± 1.4 | 2+ (12) | 110.8 ± 1.5 | |||
| 3+ (22) | 133.1 ± 1.1 | 54 ± 9 | 4.1 ± 0.1 | 3+ (4) | 128.3 ± 2.8 | |
| 4+ (10) | 146.0 ± 1.2 | 4+ (5) | 153.8 ± 6.9 | |||
| Whale Cove river | 1+ (0) | 1+ (6) | 104.3 ± 1.0 | |||
| 2+ (14) | 116.1 ± 1.6 | 2+ (21) | 114.1 ± 1.1 | |||
| 3+ (32) | 134.2 ± 1.2 | 79 ± 12 | 4.7 ± 0.1 | 3+ (19) | 131.5 ± 1.2 | |
| 4+ (21) | 155.2 ± 2.2 | 4+ (26) | 151.2 ± 1.4 | |||
| 5+ (5) | 191.4 ± 9.5 | 5+ (7) | 176.9 ± 3.6 | |||
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1 SE, n = sample size.