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3.3 Pictorial guide to <strong>staging</strong> S. commerson ovariesAn insert booklet designed as a convenient field guide provides photographs (Plates 1 to 24)<strong>of</strong> S. commerson ovaries to complement the descriptive macroscopic <strong>and</strong> microscopic<strong>staging</strong> <strong>systems</strong> given above. These photographs show the range in shape <strong>and</strong> colour <strong>of</strong>ovaries within each stage, as well as the close-up macroscopic appearance <strong>of</strong> the ovariantissue <strong>and</strong> histological features <strong>of</strong> the ovaries.10080Percent6040200Jul-Dec 1999Jul-Dec 20001 1a 2 3 4 5a 5b 5c 6Maturity StageFigure 5.Proportion <strong>of</strong> S. commerson ovaries that were given the same macroscopic <strong>and</strong>histological stage. Note that the 1a stage was not used in 1999.20 Fish. Res. Rep. West. Aust.2001, 136, 1-32
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