FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Tag and recapture of European hake (Merluccius merluccius L.) off the Northwest Iberian Peninsula: First results support fast growth hypothesis BT AF PINEIRO, C REY, J DE PONTUAL, Helene GONI, R AS 1:1;2:2;3:3;4:4; FF 1:;2:;3:PDG-DOP-DCB-STH-LASAA;4:; C1 Ctr Oceanog Vigo, Inst Espanol Oceanog, Vigo 36200, Spain. Ctr Oceanog Malaga, Inst Espanol Oceanog, Fuengirola 29640, Spain. IFREMER, Lab Sclerochronol Animaux Aquat, STH LASAA, F-29280 Plouzane, France. Ctr Oceanog Baleares, Inst Espanol Oceanog, Palma de Mallorca 07080, Spain. C2 IEO, SPAIN IEO, SPAIN IFREMER, FRANCE IEO, SPAIN SI BREST SE PDG-DOP-DCB-STH-LASAA IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 copubli-europe IF 1.196 TC 38 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2007/publication-3525.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;Northeast Atlantic;Age estimation;Tag recapture;Growth rates;European hake AB In the first tagging experiment of European hake (Merluccius merluccius L.) conducted off the NW Iberian Peninsula to study hake growth in the wild we released 527 live tagged individuals. The survival rate after capture and tagging was 58%. Mortality during capture was positively correlated with depth of capture and negatively correlated with hake size. Fifteen months after tagging, seven individuals (1.3%) had been recaptured with times at liberty ranging from 29 to 466 days. We provide the first direct measurements of growth rates of Southern stock European hake in the wild and compare them with rates obtained from tagging experiments in other regions and with rates derived from conventional otolith age reading. The mean somatic growth rate of all recaptured hake was 0.032 +/- 0.016 cm day(-1) (sexes combined), while the mean growth rate of the two hake with over 340 days at liberty was 0.052 +/- 0.003 cm day(-1) (sexes unknown). These results indicate that conventional otolith age reading methods overestimate age and underestimate growth. (C) 2007 Published by Elsevier B.V. PY 2007 PD DEC SO Fisheries Research SN 0165-7836 PU Elsevier VL 88 IS 1-3 UT 000251760200018 BP 150 EP 154 DI 10.1016/j.fishres.2007.08.015 ID 3525 ER EF