Figure 4. Scale image (magnification 20X) from a 33-cm male summer flounder captured in March 1996 during the NEFSC spring bottom trawl survey, which was aged by the NEFSC as age 1 and by the NCDMF as age 2 in the original 50-fish NEFSC exchange sample. Both NCDMF annuli are indicated; NEFSC considers the first mark to be an early life history event. Workshop participants did not resolve the disagreement.
