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FISHERIES RESEARCH
Volume 95, Issue 2-3, Pages 230-235Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2008.09.031
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Chondrichthyans; Elasmobranchs; von Bertalanffy; Age and growth
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- Central Ageing Facility at the Primary Industries Research Victoria (PIRVIC)
- Australian Fisheries Research and Development Corporation [FRDC Project 2003/023]
- Scholarship from the National Science and Technology Council (CONACyT)
- National Fisheries Institute (INP) from Mexico
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Three stochastic models were used to describe the growth of Heterodontus portusjacksoni off eastern Victoria, Australia. The models are based on a reparametrization of the von Bertalanffy growth model to take account of length-at-age heterogeneity, and incorporate random variation of the von Bertalariffy growth coefficient (k), using three different probability distribution functions (pdfs): Weibull, gamma and log-normal. They were fitted to the lengths of 179 specimens (79 females and 100 males), and associated age estimates obtained by counting growth bands in the inner trunk dentine layer of the dorsal-fin spines. The species is relatively long-lived (maximum estimated age of 35 years for females and 28 years for males) and slow growing, but has rapid growth during the early stages of life. All the models provided similar growth parameters and length-at-age quantiles. However, Kullbackis information mean indicated that the stochastic model assuming a log-normal distribution fitted the length-at-age data better for both females (L-infinity = 1337, E(k) = 0.059, t(0) = 5.294) and males (L infinity = 1125, E(k) = 0.075, t(0) = 4.944) than the models assuming other distributions. The chi(2) likelihood ratio test indicated that females and males grow differently. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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