Length at ¢rst maturity of two species of lantern sharks (Etmopterus spinax and Etmopterus pusillus) o¡ southern Portugal
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Etmopterus spinax and Etmopterus pusillus are captured in large quantities in some deep-water ¢sheries along the Portuguese coast and are always discarded. Specimens were collected from February 2003 to May 2004 from deep-water ¢sheries and classi¢ed as mature or immature. Maturity ogives were ¢tted and size at ¢rst maturity estimated for each sex of each species. Both species are late maturing, with the maturity sizes varying between 75% and 87% of the maximum observed sizes, depending on species and sex. For both species, females tended to mature at and grow to larger sizes than males. The late maturation of these deep-water shark species makes these populations extremely vulnerable to increasing ¢shing mortality.
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