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(1983) 



 RadlkeS Hurley 



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H — Ehrhardl(1992) 



Tserpes & 

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Ehrhardtelal (1996) 



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Present study 



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Figure 11 



A comparison of the growth curves of female and male swordfish 

 estimated by different authors. 



National Marine Fisheries Sei-vices, NOAA, for their 

 comments on the initial draft of this paper. Our many 

 thanks are also given to four anonymous referees for their 

 valuable comments. This study was in part supported 

 financially by the "Fisheries Administration, Council of 

 Agriculture, Taiwan," through grant 88-AST-1.4-FID-04 

 (04)toChi-LuSun. 



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