Leslie Population Estimate for a Large Lake

Authors

Jack Peterson, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
Melvin Taylor, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
Allan Hanson, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

Date of this Version

January 1980

Comments

Published in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 109:329-331, 1980. Copyright © by the American Fisheries Society. Used by permission.

Abstract

The accuracy of a population estimate made by the Leslie removal method was evaluated for adult northern pike (Esox lucius) in a 288-hectare lake. The Leslie estimate of 6,290 fish was within 1% of that obtained from direct enumeration.