FISHERY BULLETIN: VOL. 87, NO. 1 



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Z 



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~r 



~r 



so 100 150 200 250 300 



FORK LENGTH (mm) 



Figure 2.— Regression of number of presumed daily rings on fork length of young-of-the-year king mackereL 



• Females 

 ° Males 



16 19 



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SECTION AGE (yrs) 



Figure 3.— Mean difference between whole and sectioned otolith ages for each 

 sectioned age group, by sex. Sample size is indicated for each data point. 



Table 1 .—Least squares regression of fork length (FL, in mm) on otolith radius (OR, in ocular units) for sectioned and whole 



otoliths. 



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