Colin Jones
47:56 - 48:09
"our A50 estimate dropped by 0.6 years from our previous estimate. So we have seen a slight shift in the left of the curve to younger maturing females."
“our A50 estimate dropped by 0.6 years from our previous estimate. So we have seen a slight shift in the left of the curve to younger maturing females.”
- Speaker
- Colin Jones
- Timestamp
- 47:56 – 48:09
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- September 22, 2026
From the transcript
And that's what you see as the green line on the figure here. And then also, as you can see, the red line is what our previous estimates were, and these aren't direct comparisons because the previous estimate was only taken from fish sample in regulatory areas 2B, which is Canada, and 3A, which is the Central Gulf of Alaska, whereas the green line is a total coast-wide estimate. From all regulatory areas and all biological regions. And as you can see, our A50 estimate dropped by 0.6 years from our previous estimate. So we have seen a slight shift in the left of the curve to younger maturing females.
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