Make maximum age for population using built-in data sets.

The purpose of this function is to query the maximum age in the selected river from built-in data set containing region-specific max_ages and.

Usage

make_maxage(
  river,
  sex = c("female", "male"),
  species = c("AMS", "ALE", "BBH"),
  custom_habitat = NULL
)

river: River for which maximum age is needed.
sex: Sex of fish. If not specified, then mean of male and female maximum ages is returned for American shad, or pooled sex data used for river_herring.
species: Species for which population dynamics will be simulated. Choices include American shad ("AMS"), alewife ("ALE"), and blueback herring ("BBH").
custom_habitat: A dataframe containing columns corresponding to the those in the output from custom_habitat_template(). NEED TO ADD LINK.

A numeric vector of length = 1 containing maximum age of fish in population.

Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission

make_maxage(river = "Susquehanna", species = "AMS")
#> [1] 13