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dens, accounting for Q'iA'yc of the variability in age (Table 2, 

 Fig. 6). Otolith height was also a useful predictor of fish 

 age, accounting for 88'X of the variability in age. In con- 

 trast, otolith length and breadth were poor predictors of 

 age for P. multidens (Table 2). 



Growth and mortality models 



The von Bertalanffy growth curve was fitted to FL-at-age 

 for all P. multidens (Fig. 7), and separately for each sex 

 (Table 3>. Growth in FL of P. multidens is relatively fast to 



