Otolith research and application: current directions in innovation and implementation

Begg, Gavin A., Campana, Steven E., Fowler, Anthony J., and Suthers, Iain M. (2005) Otolith research and application: current directions in innovation and implementation. Marine and Freshwater Research, 56 (5). pp. 477-483.

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Abstract

The Third International Symposium on Fish Otolith Research and Application was held in Townsville, Queensland, Australia from 11 to 16 July 2004. The overall theme was ‘Innovation and Implementation’, a collection of which is published here (Volume 56, Issue 5). Although age and growth studies predominated at the Symposium, new areas of quality-control assurance, annual-increment formation in deep-sea and tropical fish, image analysis and two-dimensional feature extraction were demonstrated. New statistical approaches were also evident, particularly in the subsampling of commercial data for estimating age compositions. The chemical composition of otoliths as natural data loggers has greatly advanced since the 1998 Symposium, with the advent of micromilling machines, new instrumentation and the use of isotopes rather than elements as environmental indicators. Otoliths will continue to support modern environmental needs for fisheries, marine park assessment, metapopulation conservation and the management of stocks and biodiversity of fish.

Item ID: 14055
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 1448-6059
Keywords: age; assessment; chemistry; climate; ecology; fisheries management; growth; otolith; symposium; validation
Date Deposited: 07 Dec 2010 04:42
FoR Codes: 07 AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCES > 0704 Fisheries Sciences > 070402 Aquatic Ecosystem Studies and Stock Assessment @ 100%
SEO Codes: 83 ANIMAL PRODUCTION AND ANIMAL PRIMARY PRODUCTS > 8302 Fisheries - Wild Caught > 830299 Fisheries- Wild Caught not elsewhere classified @ 100%
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