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Marbled lungfish growth rates in Lake Baringo, Kenya, estimated by mark‐recapture
Author(s) -
Dunbrack R.,
Green J. M.,
Mlewa C. M.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of fish biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1095-8649
pISSN - 0022-1112
DOI - 10.1111/j.0022-1112.2006.00906.x
Subject(s) - lungfish , biology , range (aeronautics) , mark and recapture , marbled meat , zoology , ecology , fish <actinopterygii> , fishery , demography , population , materials science , sociology , composite material
Mark‐recapture was used to quantify the relationship between body mass ( M T ) and individual growth rates of sub‐adult marbled lungfish Protopterus aethiopicus in Lake Baringo, Kenya. Specific growth rate (in mass) was found to be a well defined and decreasing function of M T over the size range of recaptured fish. Growth trajectories based on this function indicated that Lake Baringo African lungfish reached maturity at an age of c . 3 years and had a low reproductive effort.
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