Crustaceans play an important role in marine ecosystem and worldwide fisheries. Accurate
and quantitative description of growth is crucial in modelling the demographics and fisheries …

Crustacean fisheries account for nearly 30% of all fish and shellfish landings by value world-
wide. This paper reviews and evaluates the application of various stock assessment …

Developments during the past 20 years are reviewed for four aspects of crustacean growth.
These are the hormonal control of moulting, the effects of external factors on growth rate, the …

As is true for many fish and invertebrate fisheries, stock–recruitment relationships remain
poorly understood for most commercially important species of lobsters and crabs. This paper …

The natural rate of lipofuscin accumulation in an eyestalk ganglion was determined from
microtagged European lobsters, Homarus gammarus, of known age, recaptured from the …

In ecological studies on freshwater crayfish, determination of basic population parameters is
often complicated by the lack of a suitable age estimation method. 2. Previously, lipofuscin …

Crustaceans, a commercially important class of arthropods in fisheries and aquaculture,
represent a major worldwide food component for human consumption. Recently, growing …

Figure 3.6–6 Model-derived size at maturity estimates for the five general regions used in
the Western Rock Lobster Stock Assessment Model (see Section 5.5). Black dots represent …

This paper presents a novel approach for fitting length data to the Schnute growth model.
Cohorts were fitted manually to a time series of length distributions from two stocks …

Determination of basic population parameters in long-lived Crustacea is hindered by a lack
of appropriate methods for age determination. This study uses the pigment lipofuscin as an …