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Report of the Age Calibration Exercise Analysis for Anchovy in Division 9a (IBERAS survey 2018)
In November 2018, a new acoustic survey (IBERAS) coordinated by IEO and IPMA was
carried out in order to estimate the strength of sardine and anchovy recruitment in the Atlantic
waters of the Iberian Peninsula (ICES Division 9a) and to map its distribution area. As well as
determine the main biological characteristics of these species in the area.
In January-February 2019, an otolith reading exercise was carried out on the anchovy from the
survey to determine its age, with the objective of calibrating the age readings among the
anchovy readers of the IEO and the IPMA, and estimating the accuracy and discrepancies in the
determination of anchovy age among these readers. As well as, to obtain the age length keys of
the surve