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Striped mullet abundance stratified by size class and salinity regime for young-of-the-year 

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Figure 6 



Regression analysis of striped mullet daily growth increments and number of days after 

 oxytetracycline (OTC) marking. Each data point represents the mean number of daily 

 growth increments for ten specimens taken each week of the experiment and error bars 

 represent standard errors of the mean. 



