Table 1. — Estimated growth rates of Coryphaena hippurus 



' Richard Schekter, Research Associate. Division of Biology and Living Resources, University of Miami, 4600 Ricken- 

 backer Causeway, Miami, FL 33149, pers, commun. February 1982. 



between sagittal radius and fish standard length (r = 

 0.95) and between sagittal radius and the number of 

 rings (r = 0.88), it may be possible to estimate the 

 length and age of a fish from the sagittal radius alone. 



Acknowledgments 



We thank Andrew Rosenberg for providing techni- 

 cal assistance with otolith reading, Stephen Fry for 

 photography, and market vendors in Barbados for 

 field cooperation. This study was funded by an IUC/ 

 UWI grant to H. Oxenford and a CIDA/NSERC 

 Research Associateship and U.W.I. Post-Graduate 

 Awards grant to W. Hunte. 



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Biology Department 

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 Barbados, West Indies 



Bellairs Research Institute of McCill University 

 St. James, Barbados, West Indies 



Wayne Hunte 



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