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Length-weight relationships for 48 fish species of the Gediz estuary, in İzmir Bay (Central Aegean Sea, Turkey)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2017

Alı Kara ,
Cemıl Sağlam ,
Denız Acarli  and
Özgür Cengız
Alı Kara*
Affiliation:
Ege University Fisheries Faculty Izmir, Turkey
Cemıl Sağlam
Affiliation:
Ege University Fisheries Faculty Izmir, Turkey
Denız Acarli
Affiliation:
Department of Fisheries Technology, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Gökçeada School of Applied Sciences, Çanakkale, Turkey
Özgür Cengız
Affiliation:
Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Marine Sciences and Tecnology Faculty, Çanakkale, Turkey
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: A. Kara, Ege University Fisheries Faculty Izmir, Turkey email: ali.kara@ege.edu.tr
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Abstract

Length-weight relationships were calculated for 48 fish species from İzmir Bay in the Aegean Sea, Turkey. A total of 3584 fish specimens were captured with beach seine, handline, fyke net, scoop net, castnet and trammel net in 2010–2014. The sample size ranged from three individuals for Squatina squatina to 140 for Mugil cephalus. R2 values varied between 0.95 for Pomatoschistus bathi and 0.99 for Argyrosomus regius, Chelon labrosus and Mugil cephalus. All regressions were highly significant (P < 0.001). Values of the exponent b in the length-weight regression (W = aLb) ranged from 2.750 for S. squatina to 3.514 for Syngnathus acus and the median value was 3.134 with 25–75% of the values ranging between 3.030 and 3.218.

Keywords

Length-weight relationshipGediz estuaryİzmir BayAegean Sea
Type
Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 98 , Issue 4 , June 2018 , pp. 879 - 884
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2017 

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