Validated age and growth estimates are important for constructing age-structured population
dynamic models of chondrichthyan fishes, especially those which are exploited. We review …

The ability to perform age determinations based on the examination of hard anatomical parts
is of fundamental importance in fisheries research. Precise and accurate age information is …

It is important to understand the ages, growth characteristics, maturation processes, and
longevity of fishes to assess their current population status and to predict how their …

Age and growth estimates for sand tiger sharks, Carcharias taurus, in the western North
Atlantic were derived from 96 vertebral centra collected from sharks ranging from 94 to 277 …

Numerous studies have now demonstrated that the most common method of ageing sharks
and rays, counting growth zones on calcified structures, can underestimate true age. I …

We examined life history traits (eg, mean length-at-age, growth rate, age-at-maturity) for
blacktip sharks collected from two separate geographical areas (eastern Gulf of Mexico and …

Growth modelling is a fundamental component of fisheries assessments but is often
hindered by poor quality data from biased sampling. Several methods have attempted to …

Age and growth of Carcharhinus obscurus was studied by vertebral ageing techniques. The
annual formation of growth bands in the vertebrae was validated with oxytetracycline …

Age and growth rates of bull shark Carcharhinus leucas [n= 255; 555–2230 mm fork length
(LF)] from the northern Gulf of Mexico were estimated from ring counts on vertebral sections …

Multimodel frameworks are common in contemporary elasmobranch growth literature. These
techniques offer a proposed improvement over individual growth functions by incorporating …