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Fig.;4. Growth curve for black tuna 



Fish oi"" the year to fifth-year fish (sixth year after hatching) 



Summer grovrth curve 



Average vreight of a large number of black tuna of roughly the 



same sxze taken at the same time 



o Vfeight of individual fish 



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