Resource Ecology & Fisheries Management (REFM) Division
Age & Growth Program
Estimated production figures for 1 January
through June 2008. Total production
figures were 14,839 with 4,598 test ages and
185 examined and determined to be unageable. |
Species |
Specimens
Aged |
Flathead sole |
1,650 |
Rex sole |
596 |
Northern rock sole |
465 |
Yellowfin sole |
317 |
Bering flounder |
58 |
Kamchatka flounder |
112 |
Walleye pollock |
6,020 |
Sablefish |
1,196 |
Atka mackerel |
147 |
Rougheye rockfish |
861 |
Shortraker rockfish |
690 |
Dusky rockfish |
861 |
Quillback rockfish |
41 |
Warty sculpin |
683 |
Plain sculpin |
780 |
Bigmouth sculpin |
90 |
Yellow Irish lord |
272 |
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Committee of Age Reading Experts (CARE) Turns 25
The Committee of Age Reading Experts (CARE) held its meeting for 2008 at the Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, British Columbia, as part of the 100th anniversary celebration of the famous fisheries laboratory. (Totally unnoticed was the recognition that CARE itself, founded in 1983, could have been celebrating its own 25th anniversary!)
CARE was founded by the Technical Subcommittee of the International (Canada/U.S.) Groundfish Committee. Since its founding, CARE has been an important point of interaction for age readers on the Pacific Coast of North America from California to Alaska. Historically all age readers are welcome to the CARE meetings, but core membership has come from California, Oregon Washington, and Alaska, NMFS laboratories, and the Pacific Biological Station.
The work of CARE has always been to provide a hands-on workshop that allows fish age readers to come together and compare their ageing methodology and ageing criteria, so that their age estimates would be as accurate and consistent as possible. In recent years significant blocks of time have been provided to present otolith research and age validation studies.
The fact that CARE meetings have been held every 2 years since 1986, almost always at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center, is a testament to the recognized value of CARE.
By Dan Kimura
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