TYW33,

I'm not Dave but I'll bet he will tell you the otoliths are more accurate. I've see literature that says when scale estimates were compared to actual know ages the scales were often off. In many cases the fish were older than the scales showed them to be.

I see now where some are using clithreum bone cross sections vs. scales too.

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.