fish showeda slow golvth
during first year and rapid growth during the next
two yeaff of matufily.C hugunova(1 963)s tated
that the shdy of growth constant has led to tb€
discovery rhat najority of the fish population show
iwo phaseso f growtha nd somee vent hrce,w hile
first phase coincided with sexual immaturity, the
secondw ith sexuaml aiuritya ndt he third with old
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