FISHERY BULLETIN: VOL. 76. NO. 4 



The function expressed in terms of the size at release 



can be rearranged to 



^,n = ^ -^ f'^.n ^A24) 



°m ^ ^^m ~^^/^ <A25) 



which can be substituted into Equation (A23) to give 



S^_ = kAa+S^. (A26) 



The remaining parameter b is simply the ordinate intercept or the size at birth. 



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