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parameters and weight-length relationships between 
the maturity-estimate collection and the NMFS GOAS 
are an indication that sampling throughout the year, in 
months additional to those of the summer survey, could 
improve those estimates and could prove beneficial to 
the assessment of dusky rockfish and management of 
the pelagic shelf rockfish fisheries. 
Acknowledgments 
The author sincerely thanks the Alaska Department 
of Fish and Game Kodiak staff for access to dock-side 
sample collections; the Alaska Fisheries Science Center 
Age and Growth Program staff for aging rockfish oto- 
liths; D. Somerton for analysis and manuscript guidance; 
D. Nichol, M. Wilkins, R. Foy, and A. Moles for comments 
on the manuscript, and three anonymous reviewers. 
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