The influence of sample distribution on growth model output for a highly-exploited marine fish, the Gulf Corvina ().

Estimating the growth of fishes is critical to understanding their life history and conducting fisheries assessments. It is imperative to sufficiently sample each size and age class of fishes to construct models that accurately reflect biological growth patterns, but this may be a challenging endeavor for highly-exploited species in which older fish are rare. Here, we use the Gulf Corvina (), a vulnerable marine fish that has been persistently overfished for two decades, as a model species to compare the performance of several growth models.