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Length–weight relationships of 43 fish species from H aizhou B ay, central Y ellow S ea
Author(s) -
Wang X.,
Xue Y.,
Ren Y.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of applied ichthyology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.392
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1439-0426
pISSN - 0175-8659
DOI - 10.1111/jai.12200
Subject(s) - biology , bay , fishery , fish <actinopterygii> , zoology , ecology , oceanography , geology
Summary Specimens of 43 fish species belonging to 25 families were collected from seasonal bottom trawl surveys in H aizhou B ay from M arch to D ecember 2011. The length–weight relationships ( LWR s) of these fish species were estimated, with 22 species presented for the first time. Maximum total length records of ten species exceeded those in F ish B ase. The effects of sex, season and growth phase on the relationships for some of these species were taken into account whereby one species had significantly (P < 0.05) different LWR s by sex, and eight species exhibited significantly different LWR s by season. Two different growth stanzas were detected for two species using the double‐logarithmic plot of body weight versus total length.