Slipke’s Fish Aging Tools (S-FAT)

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Summary

Slipke’s Fish Aging Tools (S-FAT )is an add-on software package designed to
extend the utility of Fishery Analysis and Simulation Tools (FAST). S-FAT adds the
following features to FAST:

• Ability to randomly assign ages to a sample of un-aged fish based on a subsample
of known-age fish.

• Ability to compute back-calculated lengths-at-age from measurements made
from fish bony structures (otoliths, spines, etc).

• Addition of an age-length key menu item to allow users to randomly assign ages
to un-aged fish based on a sub-sample of known-age fish.

• Enhanced slot limit option of the Yield-Per-Recruit model to allow users to select
a length of interest. This will allow computation of the number of fish in the
population reaching a particular length in addition to the number of fish reaching
the lower and upper slot limits.

• Addition of more species and their associated length categories and standard
weight equations based on the soon-to-be-released 3rd Edition of Fisheries
Techniques.

In addition, S-FAT includes a free bonus upgrade to FAST 3.0. This upgrade cannot
be purchased separately, and requires a previous version of FAST to be installed on
the computer. In addition to fixing several minor problems with FAST, version 3.0
includes additional error checking to prevent accidental program crashes.
Each copy licensed for only 1 machine.