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Age and Growth of Longnose Gar in Tuttle Creek Reservoir, Kansas
Author(s) -
Klaassen Harold E.,
Morgan Kenneth L.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
transactions of the american fisheries society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.696
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1548-8659
pISSN - 0002-8487
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8659(1974)103<402:aagolg>2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - biology
Age and growth of the longnose gar in Tuttle Creek Reservoir were studied. The 101 gars were aged from the branchiostegal rays. The fish length‐branchiostegal length relationship was L = 174.21 + 25.74 B, where L = total fish length in mm and B = branchiostegal length in mm. Female gars grew faster than males. Growth increments for males for the first 6 years were 504.7, 123.7, 80.8, 48.6, 38.7, 22.8 mm; for females, for the first 8 years, 522.7, 164.1, 96.7, 64.5, 50.6, 59.7, 40.7, 20.7 mm. The length‐weight relationship was Log W = ‐6.426 + 3.274 Log L, where W = weight in g and L = total length in mm. Growth of gars in Tuttle Creek Reservoir was greater than that reported in other areas.