Orange Roughy Age Estimation by Otolith

The Terms of Reference for this project are  a) to prepare and read orange roughy otoliths collected from the Walters Shoal region to determine their ages and fulfill, if possible, the minimum sample numbers for each sex and 5 cm length bin as shown in Table 1 (high priority); and  b) to prepare and read orange roughy otoliths collected from other regions in the SIOFA Area (as determined by the Chair of the SERAWG and the data owners in collaboration with the consultant) (medium priority).  A maximum of 300 otoliths will be required to be read for (a) and (b) combined.