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How many fish are in the river?

On February 28th, 2025 Joe Thorley, presented on “How many trout are in the river?” Rethinking the logic of riverine population abundance assessments at the Alberta Native Trout Science Workshop & Gathering II

Species Sensitivity Distributions App

The Species Sensitivity Distributions shiny app is a webpage for interactively fitting species sensitivity distributions to concentration data. The user is able to select more than one distribution and plot the individual fits.

Yield per Recruit App

The Yield per Recruit shiny app is a webpage for interactively exploring the effect of various fish population parameters on the schedule, stock-recruitment relationship and yield.

The calculations are performed by the ypr R package, which also generates the plots and table.

Tidal Predictions App

The Tide Predictions shiny app is a webpage for visualizing and downloading tide height data.

The tide heights are calculated using the rtide R package.

Currently, predictions are available for 637 US stations. Unfortunately, Canadian stations are not available under an open license.

Kootenay Lake Fish Movement App

The Kootenay Lake Fish Movement shiny app is a webpage to view detections of acoustically tagged Bull Trout and Rainbow Trout in Kootenay Lake from 2008 to 2014.

A screenshot of the Kootenay Lake Fish Movement shiny app
Figure 1. A screenshot of the Kootenay Lake Fish Movement shiny app.

The app uses data from the klexdatr R package.