WARLEN and CHESTER: LARVAL SPOT OFF NORTH CAROLINA 



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L(,)=1.686e2«39(l-e-00211' 



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Figure 6— Growth of larval and early-juvenile spot collected from oceanic and estuarine waters of North Carolina in the fall-winter, 1978-79 

 and 1979-80. The Laird-Gompertz growth model was used to describe the data. Estimates of the parameters were obtained by fitting 

 the log-transformed version of the model to the data. "T" is the point of maximum absolute growth (inflection point) in the growth curve 



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