The precision of growth estimates based on fish scales often remains uncertain because of
withinindividual variation in scale size and scale patterns, and also due to measurement …

Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) populations have declined rapidly in recent years across all
geographical ranges with populations becoming extinct within certain areas. Direct …

Scale measurements, percentages of annual scale growth, and back-calculated fish lengths
were examined for the INPFC method (750 anterior reference line) and Traditional method …

Measurements of individual body length at different life stages are critical in understanding
fish ecology and evolution. Such data can be obtained via back-calculation from …

Using individually tagged wild Atlantic salmon Salmo salar from two Icelandic rivers, we
evaluated scale growth in relation to body growth and validated smolt length estimates …

One of the most important methodical aspects for identification of local stocks of Pacific
salmon by scale pattern analysis is the standardization of scale measurement criteria. In this …

Juvenile steelhead Oncorhynchus mykiss from a northern California Central Valley
population were reared in a controlled laboratory experiment. Significantly different rates of …

Salmo salar post‐smolts were reared in seawater under controlled laboratory conditions for
12 weeks. The fish were exposed to three constant temperature treatments (15, 10.5 and 6° …

We introduce a new semi-automated approach to analyzing growth patterns recorded on
fish scales. After manually specifying the center of the scale, the algorithm radially unwraps …

The assumption underlying linear back-calculation offish lengths (L) from scale
measurements (S) is that annual increments of length (Δ L) are proportional to annual …