“…By applying a relationship between the otolith morphology and fish length, it is possible to predict the fish size (Echeverria, 1987;Gamboa, 1991). Recently, researchers have shown an increased interest in the use of otoliths for calculating the fish sizes Ayyildiz, Emre, Ozen & Yagci, 2014;Ayyildiz, Ozen & Altin, 2014a;Ayyildiz, Ozen & Altin, 2014b;Ayyildiz, Ozen & Altin, 2015;Echeverria, 1987;Emre et al, 2016;Emre, Ayyildiz, Ozen & Yağcı, 2014;Kumar, Nikki, Oxona, Hashim & Sudhakar, 2017;Templeman & Squires, 1956). Otoliths may also assist to identify fossil fish species for paleontological studies (Nolf, 1995).…”