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The results of determination of age and study on growth of blue antimora Antimora rostrata from the waters of Southwestern Greenland are presented. The results are based on the analysis of 200 fish otoliths. In the catches, we found specimens of antimora with total lengths of 18−70 cm, body weights of 23−2731 g, at the age of 7−38 years. Minimal age of males (not considering juvenile individuals) was 10 years at body length of 27−33 cm; maximal age was 18 years at 42 cm. Minimal age of females was 9 years at length of 21–27 cm; maximal age was 38 years at 70 cm. The rate of linear growth in blue antimora from Southwestern Greenland waters is comparable to that in the fish from New Zealand and Ross Sea waters but considerably lower than indicated earlier for fish from the waters of Iceland, Greenland, and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The age of reaching sexual maturity in males and females is preliminary determined as 15 and 19−20 years, respectively.
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Original Russian Text © A.M. Orlov, E.V. Vedishcheva, A.O. Trofimova, S.Yu. Orlova, 2018, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2018, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 192–200.
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Orlov, A.M., Vedishcheva, E.V., Trofimova, A.O. et al. Age and Growth of Blue Antimora Antimora rostrata (Moridae) in Southwestern Greenland Waters. J. Ichthyol. 58, 217–225 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945218020108
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