The primary objectives of the project were to determine the growth rates and to describe the general pattern of growth of hagfish using two different approaches in both field and laboratory studies.  This project provided a composite picture of hagfish growth patterns and made tentative predictions of size-at-age of the Central California population of Pacific hagfish.  The project significantly contributed to the knowledge of growth and population age-size structure, both of which are directly applicable to the development of management and conservation guidelines for the hagfish fishery.