Using otolith weights to estimate age for eastern sea garfish, Hyporhamphus australis
The most common method of estimating teleost ages is via sectioned otoliths.With diminishing funding and policies around cost-recovery from fishing industries, exploring cost-effective methods of estimating ages is warranted.The present study used 18 years of size-at-age data collected from monitoring of the commercial halfbeak (Hyporhamphus austra