Estimated production figures for 1 January through 30 June 2006.
Species
Specimens Aged
Yellowfin sole
685
Walleye pollock
5,706
Pacific cod
632
Sablefish
2,389
Atka mackerel
1,467
Pacific ocean perch
582
Northern rockfish
561
Rougheye rockfish
2,728
Dusky rockfish
111
Dark rockfish
50
Great Sculpin
400
Total production figures were 18,541 with 4,468 test
ages and 225 examined and determined to be unageable. This
release of great sculpin ages are the first ages of
this species from the Age and Growth Program.
Age and Growth Program
AFSC Hosts Committee of Age Reading Experts
The AFSC again hosted the biennial CARE (Committee of Age Reading Experts) meeting
for 2006. The meeting had 33 attendees. The chair for this meeting was Patrick
McDonald from the Northwest Fisheries Science Center’s ageing laboratory in Newport,
Oregon.
Starting with this meeting, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories will send a representative
to all future CARE meetings. Dr. Gregor Cailliet, the head of the age reading
effort at the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories presented age validation work
performed by graduate students, mainly on rockfish, sharks and rays.
At the meeting, CARE returned to its roots, so to speak, with a day and a half
focused on collaborative microscope work on such species as sablefish, canary
rockfish, arrowtooth flounder, Pacific cod, Pacific whiting, petrale sole, and
thornyheads.
Although the tradition has been for the AFSC to host all CARE meetings, a special
treat may be in store for the 2008 meeting. Shayne MacLellan of the Pacific Biological
Station (PBS), Nanaimo, Canada, noted that the PBS would like to host the 2008
CARE meeting as part of the PBS 100th anniversary.
