A review of length-weight relationships of fishes from Greek marine waters

This paper presents 649 length-weight relationships gathered from literature pertaining to 83 fish species, belonging to 34 families, throughout Greek marine waters. The value of the slope b ranged from 1.667 for Cepola macrophthalma to 3.707 for Mullus barbatus. The mean value of b was 2.989 (SD=0.339) and did not differ significantly from 3(t-test, p<0.05). The median value of b was 3.058 and 50% of the b values ranged between 2.900 and 3.186.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stergiou, K.I., Moutopoulos, D.K.
Format: article biblioteca
Language:English
Published: 2001
Subjects:Aquaculture, Fisheries, Marine fish, Species, Length-weight relationships, Greece,
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1834/26125
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