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Fishery Bulletin 89(3). 1991 



Table 1 



Summary of otolith collections and maximum size of red snapper Etelis carburuxilus by region. 



Fork lengths (mm) 



Collection 

 site 



No. of 

 otolith 



Sampled 



Recorded or estimated 



Min. 



Max. 



Avg. 



SD 



MLR* 



ML ** 



Hawaii 

 Fr. Polynesia 

 No. Marianas 

 Vanuatu 



37 

 63 



62 

 13 



226 

 160 

 29 

 270 



641 

 510 

 527 

 920 



428.2 

 351.5 

 337.5 

 520.8 



101.6 

 82.0 

 66.3 



194.4 



700 (1) 



680 (2) 



540 (3) 



1270 (4) 



718 (5) 



537 (6) 

 993 (7) 



* MLR = Maximum length recorded (from regional fishery statistics). 

 "ML = Average of three estimates of asymptotic length (L^) for the von Bertalanffy growth curve (from the literature). 



Sources of MLR estimates 



(1) United Fishing Agency, Ltd. (UFA), Honolulu, pers. commun.. July 1988. 



(2) Wrobel 1985 



(3) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), 1982-84. RAIOMMA Cruise data, unpubl. logs, NMFS Honolulu Lab. 



(4) R. Grandperrin, ORSTOM fisheries biologist, Mission ORSTOM, New Caledonia, pers. commun., Feb. 1989. 



Sources of ML^ estimates 



(5) Ralston and Kawamoto 1987, Uchida et al. 1982 



(6) Ralston and Williams 1988b. NMFS RAIOMMA data 1982-84 



(7) Brouard et al. 1983, Brouard and Grandperrin 1985, Carlot and Nguyen 1989 



