Table 3.

List of predictors of Atlantic cod growth.

Predictor	Description
Random effects
FishID	Unique identifier of the fish individual
Year	Calendar year of otolith increment formation
Cohort	Group of fish from the same spawning season
Fixed effects
Age	Age of fish when growth increment was formed
Sex	Sex of the individual
SSTspawn, SSTshelf	Mean monthly sea surface temperature data58 (1901–2014), aggregated over the main spawning area (subscript spawn) or Icelandic shelf (subscript shelf)
N	Yearly data (1928–2014) on cod stock abundance of the age group, the results of the extended virtual population analysis, see Supplementary Note 1
HR	Yearly data (1928–2014) on cod stock harvest rate (proportion of the fish harvested from the stock), the results of the extended virtual population analysis, see Supplementary Note 1