Evaluating the Performance of Methods Used to Estimate Growth Parameters from Subsampled Age Data
Due to time and resource limitations, the growth of many fish species is evaluated with age and length data in a length‐stratified subsample of a sample from a population. Some fisheries professionals draw inferences about growth using age and length data from only those fish that were actually aged (aged‐only method). Alternatively, growth may be evaluated by employing a method of incorporating the length‐stratified aged subsample with information from the entire sample of fish collected, such as the weighted‐mean and assigned‐age methods, which are commonly used…Read more with free access