Table 3. Age structure of the lionfish population from northeast Florida.

The estimated proportion of the population in each age class (P_age) in each sampling month from April 2014 to January 2015 estimated from the best fit model (Table 1). Mean proportions ($\overline{x}$) from monthly model estimates were calculated as a weighted average (∑(P_a,m∗n)∕N, where N is the total number of fish captured in all months (N = 2, 137).

	Pa
Model	0	1	2	3	n
April	0.37	0.62	0.00	0.02	850
July	0.00	0.63	0.37	0.00	33
August	0.01	0.50	0.40	0.10	1,102
October	0.20	0.67	0.10	0.02	53
November	0.09	0.49	0.37	0.04	41
January	0.00	1.00	0.00	0.00	58
$\overline{x}$	0.16	0.56	0.22	0.06
Otoliths	0.09	0.69	0.14	0.09