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Age and growth of the Pacific halibut Hippoglossus stenolepis and the size-age composition of its catches in the North-Western part of the Pacific Ocean

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The results of investigation are discussed on age and growth of the Pacific halibut Hippolglossus stenolepis, as well as size-age composition of its catches in three regions of the North-Western Pacific—in Navarin area of the Bering Sea, in Pacific waters on the Northern Kurils and south-eastern Kamchatka, of the Southern Kurils—from the end of the last century. The growth rate of Pacific halibut is similar in all three regions in spite of their considerable geographic remoteness. No significant differences in the growth rate of males and females in these regions, as well as no significant interannual differences in growth of specimens caught in Pacific waters off the Northern Kurils and south-eastern Kamchatka in 1996–2000, are found. Comparison of the present-day size-age composition and that in the beginning-middle of the last century revealed their considerable similarity.

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Original Russian Text © A.M. Orlov, E.N. Kuznetsova, I.N. Mukhametov, 2011, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2011, Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 341–359.

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Orlov, A.M., Kuznetsova, E.N. & Mukhametov, I.N. Age and growth of the Pacific halibut Hippoglossus stenolepis and the size-age composition of its catches in the North-Western part of the Pacific Ocean. J. Ichthyol. 51, 306–323 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945211020068

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