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WHILE engaged upon work on herring scales at the Ministry of Fisheries Laboratory at Lowestoft in 1922 and 1923, I made several discoveries regarding the so-called “winter rings,” and the comparative growth-rates of scale and fish. These discoveries appeared to me to be of sufficient importance to be brought forward for discussion at a meeting of the Herring Committee of the International Council held at Edinburgh in June 1923, at which I offered a theory of age-determination alternative to the Norwegian theory.
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BUCHANAN-WOLLASTON, H. Growth-rings of Herring Scales. Nature 114, 348–349 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114348a0
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