The fishery for Atlantic salmon in the west Greenland area has provided useful data for the study of marine growth of salmon. Length data from seaward migrating smolts, post-smolts, and 1-, 2-, and 3-sea-winter feeders taken at sea and 1-, 2-, and 3-sea-winter spawners taken by commercial fisheries, angling, and research traps, have been used to construct a tentative growth curve. Fish which spawned after 1 sea-winter (grilse) were smaller at the time of spawning than fish of the same smolt-class which had not matured but were still actively feeding at sea. Similarly, 2-sea-winter spawners were smaller than salmon which would not have returned until after a third sea winter. The growth rate of salmon during the summer prior to spawning was lower than that of fish which would have spawned a year or more later and appears to be about the same as that during the preceding winter.
Growing degree-day influences growth rate and length of maturity of Northwest Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglussus L.) across the southern stock domain
