The global status of freshwater fish age validation studies and a prioritization framework for further research

JJ Spurgeon, MJ Hamel, KL Pope… - Reviews in Fisheries …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Age information derived from calcified structures is commonly used to estimate recruitment,
growth, and mortality for fish populations. Validation of daily or annual marks on age …

Flexible classification of Wisconsin lakes for improved fisheries conservation and management

AL Rypel, TD Simonson, DL Oele, JDT Griffin… - Fisheries, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Successful fisheries management practices developed for one ecosystem can often be used
in similar ecosystems. We developed a flexible lake classification framework in collaboration …

Growth and morphology of Critically Endangered green sawfish Pristis zijsron in globally important nursery habitats

KO Lear, T Fazeldean, RL Bateman, J Inglebrecht… - Marine Biology, 2023 - Springer
Understanding growth rates and other basic life-history information of imperilled species is
essential to assessing the extent of threats to a population, but often difficult due to limited …

Applied fish bioenergetics

JW Brownscombe, MJ Lawrence, D Deslauriers… - Fish Physiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy is a fundamental currency of life that can be quantified in organisms to understand
how environmental conditions and anthropogenic stressors affect individuals, scaling up to …

Utility of Alligator Gar age estimates from otoliths, pectoral fin rays, and scales

DL Buckmeier, NG Smith, KS Reeves - Transactions of the …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
We evaluated annulus formation and readers' ability to recognize known annuli from otoliths,
pectoral fin rays, and scales of alligator gar Atractosteus spatula using known-age (0 and 1 …

Standardised removal and sectioning locations for shovelnose sturgeon fin rays

JD Koch, WJ Schreck, MC Quist - Fisheries Management and …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Fin rays are a common structure used in age and growth analyses, but many inconsistencies
exist regarding removal and processing methodology. The purpose of this study was to …

Diagnosis of paired age agreement: a simulation of accuracy and precision effects

RS McBride - ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2015 - academic.oup.com
In a typical age and growth study, multiple estimates of individual fish age are generated: by
readers, methods, etc. These samples of paired data are evaluated with three …

Ageing bias and precision for deep-water snappers: evaluating nascent otolith preparation methods using novel multivariate comparisons among readers and growth …

CB Wakefield, JM O'Malley, AJ Williams… - ICES Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Tropical deep-water snappers (Etelinae) support valuable fisheries across the Indo-Pacific,
with stock assessments reliant on age-based information in the absence of reliable catch …

Lakeshore residential development and growth of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides): a cross‐lakes comparison

JW Gaeta, MJ Guarascio, GG Sass… - … of Freshwater Fish, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Gaeta JW, Guarascio MJ, Sass GG, Carpenter SR. Lakeshore residential development and
growth of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides): a cross‐lakes comparison. Ecology of …

Earliest references to age determination of fishes and their early application to the study of fisheries

JR Jackson - Fisheries, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Age data are routinely used in fish population studies today. While various works have
touched upon aspects of the history of fish aging techniques, there does not appear to be a …