Application of Bomb Radiocarbon Chronologies to Shortfin Mako (Isurus oxyrinchus)

• Main Authors: Ardizzone, D, Cailliet, G M, Natanson, L J, Andrews, A H, Kerr, L A, Brown, T A
• Other Authors: United States. Department of Energy.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2007
• Subjects: Vertebrae; Atlantic Ocean; Aging; Population Dynamics; Testing; Pacific Ocean; Food; Seawater; Fishes; Phase Shift; Thermonuclear Devices; Deposition; Hypothesis; 54 Environmental Sciences; Carbonates; Carbon; Corals; Runoff; Validation; Bombs; Pacific; Pratt; Lamna nasus; North Atlantic; Porbeagle
• Online Access: http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc900242/

There is an ongoing disagreement regarding the aging of the shortfin mako due to a difference of interpretation in the periodic deposition of vertebral growth band pairs, especially for the larger size classes. Using analysis of length-month information, tagging data, and length-frequency analysis,...