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How can you tell how old a fish is by its scales?

Asked: Alexandre Hamel, Last Updated:

Scales are the most widely used aging structure in North America because of their non-lethal ease of collection. Counting the number of annuli (rings) on a scale provides the fish age and the spacing between rings is proportional to the growth of the fish.

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