Author/Authors :
BAL, Habib Livestock Research Institute - Department of Fisheries, Turkey , YANIK, Telat University of Atatürk - Fisheries Faculty - Department of Aquaculture, Turkey , TÜRKER, Dilek University of Balıkesir, Çağış Campus - Faculty of Science and Arts - Department of Biology, Turkey
Title Of Article :
Length-Weight and Length-Length Relationships of The Bluefish Pomatomus saltarix (Linnaeus. 1766) Population in the South Marmara Sea of Turkey
Abstract :
A total of 1230 specimens of bluefish Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus. 1766) were collected by purse seine fishing from January to December 2014 in South Marmara Sea of Turkey. Fish size in total length ranged from 12.3 cm (minimum) in January to 43.7 cm (maximum) in May. Mean of total length 20.57±0.17 cm and mean of weight 94.74±0.41 g was calculated as. The length-weight relationships were determined for males, females, unsexed and combined sexes as W=0.102L2.9763, W=0.0105L2.9638, W=0.0152L2.8348, W=0.0107L2.9574 respectively. All fishes have been found to be isometric (b=3) growth (t test. p 0.05). The results indicated further that the length-length relationships were highly correlated (r² 0.990, p 0.001).
NaturalLanguageKeyword :
Bluefish , Length , weight relationship , length , length relationship , South Marmara
JournalTitle :
Alınteri Journal Of Agricultural Science
