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Length–Weight Relationship and Size at Maturity of the Picnic Seabream, Acanthopagrus berda (Forsskål, 1775)


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1 ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Calicut Regional station, Calicut, Kerala – 673 005, India
2 ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai, Maharastra – 400 061, India
3 ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, Kerala – 682 018, India
 

Length-weight relationship of Acanthopagrus berda was investigated from 720 specimens collected from Korapuzha estuary, Calicut, India. Length-weight relationship for male, female, transitional, undifferentiated and total sample population of A. berda were determined as W = 0.3994L2.536, W = 0.1694L3.0584, W = 0.14778L3.1044, W = 0.12015L3.285 and W = 0.16515L3.037, respectively. The overall mean b value (3.03±0.02) indicated isometric growth. Fecundity ranged from 117,821 to 2,225,243 eggs in females weighing 109.5 to 1753 g. Length at 50 % maturity was observed at 22.0 cm TL for males and 28.6 cm TL for females. Males (13 – 24 cm TL) dominated smaller length classes whereas females (25 – 43 cm TL) dominated in classes > 25 cm TL indicating protandrous hermaphroditism in A. berda.

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Acanthopagrus berda, Condition Factor, Fecundity, Length-Weight Relationship, Size at Maturity.
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Authors

M. T. Shilta
ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Calicut Regional station, Calicut, Kerala – 673 005, India
N. K. Chadha
ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai, Maharastra – 400 061, India
P. P. Suresh Babu
ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Calicut Regional station, Calicut, Kerala – 673 005, India
P. K. Asokan
ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Calicut Regional station, Calicut, Kerala – 673 005, India
K. Vinod
ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Calicut Regional station, Calicut, Kerala – 673 005, India
I. Joseph
ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, Kerala – 682 018, India
P. B. Sawant
ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai, Maharastra – 400 061, India
R. Abhijith
ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Calicut Regional station, Calicut, Kerala – 673 005, India

Abstract


Length-weight relationship of Acanthopagrus berda was investigated from 720 specimens collected from Korapuzha estuary, Calicut, India. Length-weight relationship for male, female, transitional, undifferentiated and total sample population of A. berda were determined as W = 0.3994L2.536, W = 0.1694L3.0584, W = 0.14778L3.1044, W = 0.12015L3.285 and W = 0.16515L3.037, respectively. The overall mean b value (3.03±0.02) indicated isometric growth. Fecundity ranged from 117,821 to 2,225,243 eggs in females weighing 109.5 to 1753 g. Length at 50 % maturity was observed at 22.0 cm TL for males and 28.6 cm TL for females. Males (13 – 24 cm TL) dominated smaller length classes whereas females (25 – 43 cm TL) dominated in classes > 25 cm TL indicating protandrous hermaphroditism in A. berda.

Keywords


Acanthopagrus berda, Condition Factor, Fecundity, Length-Weight Relationship, Size at Maturity.

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