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This attempts to better link the growth sections with each other and provide more detail in setting up the different growth parameters.

Resolves #326

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Rick-Methot-NOAA commented Apr 1, 2026

I agree with Ian that this section needs an intro paragraph and to address the suggestions in #326. I can work on this after I do the vignette associated with nmfs-ost/ss3-source-code#747

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@Rick-Methot-NOAA, yes it does

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@e-perl-NOAA, thanks for working on this. The changes are all valuable improvements, but I think that adding an intro paragraph thanks to @Rick-Methot-NOAA is also needed.

I would also include a table similar to the one pasted below for selectivity after that intro paragraph, prior to the von Bertalanffy description instead of just relying on hyperlinks in the "Example growth specifications" section which comes later (although the hyperlinks are still a valuable addition there).

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\multicolumn{2}{l}{COND if growth type >= 3} & Age-Specific K \\
& \multicolumn{2}{l}{N parameter lines equal to the number K deviations for the ages specified above.} \Bstrut\\
\hypertarget{RichardsLine}{Richards Coefficient} & \multicolumn{2}{l}{Only include this parameter if Richards growth function is used. If included, a parameter value of 1.0 will have a null effect and produce a growth curve identical to von Bertalanffy. To use the Gompertz growth curve, the Richards parameter can be fixed at a small value such as 0.0001.} \\
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formatting of this section is not very good in the PDF version of the manual. Maybe this information just isn't well suited to the table format of "Read Biology Parameters" and should come after?

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[FEATURE]: revise growth section of manual

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