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AFSC Quarterly
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Oct-Nov-Dec 2006
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Age & Growth Program

Estimated production figures for 1 January through 31 December 2006.
Species Specimens Aged
Flathead sole
1,888               
Alaska plaice
339               
Dover sole
838               
Northern rock sole
921               
Yellowfin sole
1,617               
Walleye pollock
9,431               
Pacific cod
4,682               
Sablefish
2,389               
Atka mackerel
1,467               
Pacific ocean perch
2,378               
Northern rockfish
817               
Rougheye rockfish
4,766               
Dusky rockfish
476               
Dark rockfish
50               
Great sculpin
400               
Total production figures were 32,459 with 8,023 test ages and 352 examined and determined to be unageable.

New Online Database

If you are a direct user of age data from the Age and Growth Program, you may be interested in a new online database, designed to show the progress of samples as they are processed by age readers. The database allows users to track their requests and to make the internal operations of the Age and Growth Program more transparent.

When queried, this database will display three groups of samples. 1) The first group is “Requests in Queue.” These are samples which have been requested, but have not been started by age readers. 2) The second group is “Currently Ageing.” These are samples in the process of being read. It is possible to view the total sample sizes and the sample size that has been read. Users are reminded that samples must be tested by a second age reader, and the test results reconciled before samples are released. 3) The third group is “Released Collections.” These are samples that have completed processing and have been released to the users. This list includes recently released samples and samples that have been released during the previous calendar year.

By Dan Kimura

 

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