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Estimated age (yr) 
Figure 14 
Mean length at age and von Bertalanffy growth curves for black grouper, 
Mycteroperca bonaci, based on data from our study (* and solid line) and from 
Manooch and Mason (1987; and broken line). 
Florida Panhandle. J. Leiby, R. McBride, M. Murphy, 
J. Quinn, and D. Winkelman made helpful comments 
that improved the manuscript. Lastly, we thank C. 
Manooch and M. Burton for providing us with the 
data described in Manooch and Mason (1987). This 
project was funded by a grant from the National 
Marine Fisheries Service, U.S. Department of Com- 
merce, Award NA57FF0060, L.H. Bullock and R.E. 
Crabtree, principal investigators. 
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