Estimates are made using datasets available at the
National Marine Fisheries Service's Northeast Fisheries Science Center.
Some of this information appeared in Penttila et al. (1989) but much of it remains unpublished.

Penttila, J. A., G. A. Nelson, and J. M. Burnett, III. 1989.
Guidelines for estimating lengths at age for 18 northwest Atlantic finfish and shellfish species.
NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/NEC-66:1-39.

Fish measurement diagram is from http://www.fishbase.org.
Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Editors. 2000. FishBase 2000: concepts, design and data sources.
ICLARM, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines. 344 p.

Webpage author: john.hauser@noaa.gov

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