Colin Jones
48:15 - 49:01
"our previous indication was that we thought females did not mature any earlier than age 8 based on visual, but histologically we've actually found females to mature at age 7. So we have not seen any females, so we dropped it to 0 below 7 because we have never seen a mature female below that age."
“our previous indication was that we thought females did not mature any earlier than age 8 based on visual, but histologically we've actually found females to mature at age 7. So we have not seen any females, so we dropped it to 0 below 7 because we have never seen a mature female below that age.”
- Speaker
- Colin Jones
- Timestamp
- 48:15 – 49:01
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- September 22, 2026
From the transcript
And then the— oops, sorry. And then the last is that we also truncated the curve to zero at age 7, So our previous indication was that we thought females did not mature any earlier than age 8 based on visual, but histologically we've actually found females to mature at age 7. So we have not seen any females, so we dropped it to 0 below 7 because we have never seen a mature female below that age. And so this just kind of gives you, and then this was all incorporated into last year's stock assessment as a an update to the maturity of OJIVE and SSB estimations in the assessment. And if you want more further documentation on this, refer to document 6 from SRB 26, and it'll give you all the information that you need there.
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