Rapid growth of wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri) in the Coral Sea, based on length-at-age estimates using annual and daily increments on sagittal otoliths

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1128-1139

  Zischke, Mitchell T ^a,b   Griffiths, Shane P ^b   Tibbetts, Ian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

age; growth performance index; microincrements; pelagic; Scombridae; von Bertalanffy

Indexed keywords

AGE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; GROWTH RATE; PELAGIC FISH; PERCIFORM; VON BERTALANFFY EQUATION;

CORAL SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84883257488     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fst039     Document Type: Article

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