A group of marine scientists introduced a species of fish into an artificial habitat and wanted to determine whether it will gro
w well in the new environment. They recorded the population over several years and their data is plotted below. Analyze the data and formulate a conclusion. Does this species of fish do well in this habitat? Predict what will happen to the population over the next five years.
The species of fish do well in the data because you can see that the production of fish increases as the year also increases. I can conclude that in the next 5 years, the population of these fishes will increase because of the successful and good artificial environment where the fishes lived.
the population at year ends was 100, 105, 95, 102,93, 105,98,102 and 100. mean is 100. so the fish population is not growing or declining after 9 years. it means the fish is doing ok; not well enough to increase its pop'n but not bad to decrease either.
over the next 5 yrs, pop'n likely to stay around 100.
