2019-06-172019-06-171982p. 33-70. In: Pauly, D. ; Murphy, G.I. (eds.) Theory and management of tropical fisheries. ICLARM Conference Proceedings 9. 360 p.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/3537Some methods available for the study of the population dynamics of tropical fish are reviewed; emphasis is given to questions of growth, mortality and recruitment, and to relatively new approaches, such as aging by means of daily otolith structures, detailed analysis of length-frequency data and to comparative studies. A package of methods is discussed which is based on a set of 3 new, simple computer programs written in BASIC for the analysis of length-frequency data (ELEFAN I, II and III)application/pdfCC BY 4.0Book Chapter