Determining the Age of Young Herring from their Otoliths
- 1 January 1964
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
- Vol. 93 (1) , 11-20
- https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8659(1964)93[11:dtaoyh]2.0.co;2
Abstract
The validity of the otolith technique for aging young Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus harengus) of the Maine commercial fishery was established by the Petersen and known‐age methods. Tests of interpretation among different observers demonstrated a reproducibility of better than 90 percent. The study is based upon a collection of approximately 20,000 length measurements and 7,500 otoliths assembled from the catches between 1960 and 1962, and shows that the fishery is essentially a one‐year‐class fishery for 2‐year‐old herring.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: