New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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MARKING AND TAGGING OF THE SOUTHERN ROCK LOBSTER JASUS NOVAEHOLLANDIAEHOLTHIUS OFF TASMANIA

R. H. WlNSTANLEY*

Fisheries Division, Department of Agriculture, Hobart, Tasmania

Abstract Other marking techniques (tail punching and pleopod clipping) enabled rock lobsters of total carapace lengths greater than 40 mm to be marked according to size and month of marking. Marks were discernible and could be interpreted up to 2 y after marking, although the original shapes of marks were not distinguishable after the second or third moult. The methods are well suited to studies of the growth of juvenile and adult rock lobsters, if sampling is done by people trained to recognise the marks.

N.Z. Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 10 (2) : 355-62. June 1976 Received 21 October 1975

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