@article{fdi:010063911,
  title = {{E}stimating growth of tropical tunas in the {I}ndian {O}cean using tag-recapture data and otolith-based age estimates},
  author = {{E}veson, {J}. {P}. and {M}illion, {J}. and {S}ardenne, {F}any and {L}e {C}roizier, {G}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{A} growth model from which the expected age of a fish can be estimated based on its length is a key component to most stock assessments. {F}or the three tropical tuna species in the {I}ndian {O}cean - yellowfin ({YET}; {T}hunnus albacares), bigeye ({BET}; {T}. obesus) and skipjack ({SKJ}; {K}atsuwonus pelamis) - information about growth has been very limited until recently, when data from a large-scale {I}ndian {O}cean tuna tagging program became available. {I}n this paper, parametric growth models were fit to tag-recapture data for all three species using a maximum likelihood method that models the joint density of release and recapture lengths as a function of age by treating age at tagging as a random variable. {T}he method allows for individual variability in growth by modelling the asymptotic length parameter as a random effect. {D}irect age and length data from otolith readings were also included in the analysis for {YFT} and {BET}. {T}he results support two-stanza growth models for all three species; however, the growth patterns for {YET} and {BET} differ from {SKJ}. {YFT} and {BET} exhibit a transition in growth between age 2 and 3, with faster growth in the second stanza than the first, whereas sig exhibit a transition in growth around age 1, with much faster growth in the first stanza than the second. {M}ost likely, {YFT} and {BET} also experience a phase of rapid growth directly following hatching, but lack of data for fish less than 50 cm for these species precludes its estimation. {D}ifferences in growth between sexes were found for {YFT} and {BET}, with males growing to a larger size; information on sex was not available for {SKJ}. {C}rown {C}opyright ({C}) 2014 {P}ublished by {E}lsevier {B}.{V}. {A}ll rights reserved.},
  keywords = {{Y}ellowfin ({T}hunnus albacares) ; {B}igeye ({T}hunnus obesus) ; {S}kipjack ; ({K}atsuwonus pelamis) ; {T}wo-stanza growth ; maximum likelihood ; {T}ag-recapture ; {O}tolith ; {OCEAN} {INDIEN}},
  booktitle = {{T}he {IO} tuna tagging},
  journal = {{F}isheries {R}esearch},
  volume = {163},
  numero = {{SI}},
  pages = {58--68},
  ISSN = {0165-7836},
  year = {2015},
  DOI = {10.1016/j.fishres.2014.05.016},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010063911},
}