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Figure 7 



Age bias plot for juvenile striped mullet showing differences between blind read 

 ages and the originally assigned ages, n = 69. 



Mean size and age per month for these juveniles (Fig. 9, 

 A and B) indicated steady growth throughout the year. 

 One particular problem occurred in the month of April for 

 fish in the juvenile aging study. For the first year when 

 juveniles were collected, the size range was 130 to 180 mm 

 and for the second year of the study, an April collection was 

 not made because of equipment problems. The mean size 

 and age for the fish collected in April indicated that these 



fish were one-year-old juveniles, not young of the year. 

 Therefore, these fish were removed from the data set in 

 subsequent analyses. 



Specimens were not present for every month of every 

 year for the rotenone survey, except for 1990 and 1991, be- 

 cause of differing sampling strategies employed. Therefore, 

 all the rotenone data were pooled and collections for every 

 month were represented in one data set. The resulting 



