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val studies that a fast growth rate will be reflected 

 in lower mortality rates, although the implications 

 of fast or slow growth to subsequent survivorship 

 have yet to be addressed. Otolith analysis empha- 

 sizing individual rather than population growth 

 parameters may provide a tool for approaching such 

 questions in field situations. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



This study was conducted while the author was 

 the holder of the Monkman Fellowship, Department 

 of Marine Biology, James Cook University. Addi- 

 tional financial support was provided by the Austra- 

 lian Institute of Marine Science and a Great Bar- 

 rier Reef Marine Park Authority augmentative 

 grant. J. H. Choat and D. McB. Williams supervised 

 this study and provided constructive criticisms on 

 the manuscript. I thank A. Robertson, T. Fowler, 

 and two anonymous referees for critically review- 

 ing, and considerably improving, this paper. 



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