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donia ( Kulbicki et al., 1993 ), systematic data are lack- 

 ing from northern Australian waters. Because our 

 data covered relatively large size ranges of each of 

 the 14 species offish concerned, our estimates of al- 

 lometric parameters and associated relationships will 

 improve stock assessments of major groundfish in 

 northern Australian waters. 



Acknowledgments 



We wish to thank J. Robinson of the School of Math- 

 ematics and Statistics of the University of Sydney 

 for his valuable suggestion of the model, R. C. 

 Buckworth and I. Knuckey, both of our Fisheries 

 Division, for their useful comments on the manu- 

 script, and A. Coleman and J. Lloyd also of our Fish- 

 eries Division for their assistance in acquiring the 

 weight at length data. This project was funded partly 

 by the Australian Fisheries Research and Develop- 

 ment Corporation (90/15) and the former Australian 

 Fisheries Service. 



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