Common guidelines to help maturing staging of fish

An international team of scientists led by the National Institute of Aquatic Resources at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Aqua) has put the spotlight on the maturing staging of fish and what we can do to ensure standardisation. The creation and implementation of common guidelines, specifically for sprat and herring, would result in standardised guidelines for maturity determination across the globe and would help make fish stock assessments significantly more accurate.