This 2-slide information bite addresses fish aging topic covering its importance and applications in fishery management as well as aquaculture. The main fish aging methods are listed including the reading of scales, opercula, otolith or vertebrae. The focus has been placed on scale reading being the simplest method in fish aging as well as the conditions that favor or do not favor the use of scale reading in fish aging.
[important]Fish aging – general and scale reading[/important]