the objectives of this study were to determine the age, growth, mortality and exploitation of a commercially important fish of northeastern mediterranean sea, mullus barbatus from the karatas coast of iskenderun bay during september 2002 and april 2003. a total of 212 specimens of red mullet were collected by monthly sampling using traditional bottom trawl net by commercial vessel (coskun reis,...

the length-weight relationship (lwr) and condition factors (cf) of 180 the oriental river prawn macrobrachium nipponense collected from southern coasts of the caspian sea from may through september 2012 were studied. shrimp samples were taken and immediately transferred to the laboratory of fish biology at university of guilan for further analyses. length, weight and other external features of ...

this study reports the length-weight relationship (lwr), fulton's condition factor ( k ), and sex ratio of the non-native catfish hoplosternum littorale (hancock, 1828) in florida for the first time. sampling was conducted from november 2013 to april 2014 in tosohatchee wildlife management area in christmas, florida. a total of 477 specimens were caught (6.4-13.5 cm tl). the allometric coeffici...

the length- length (llrs), length-weight (lwr) relationships and relative condition factor (kn) of 505 specimens of pike, (esox lucius linnaeus, 1798) from anzali wetland, southwest of the caspian sea, were studied from april 2012 through march 2013. the length-length relationships among total length (tl), fork length (fl) and standard length (sl) for pike were found to be highly significant (r...