Using modified length–weight relationships to assess the condition of fish

RE Jones, RJ Petrell, D Pauly - Aquacultural engineering, 1999‏ - Elsevier
This paper develops a model to replace classical fish models used to assess weight and
condition. Results from two classical models (M= KL 3 and M= aL b) were compared to …

Weight‐length relationships in fisheries studies: the standard allometric model should be applied with caution

A De Robertis, K Williams - Transactions of the American …, 2008‏ - academic.oup.com
The standard allometric weight‐length relationship W= aLb is widely used in fisheries
science to estimate the weight of fish of known length and to compute body condition …

Population structure of the invasive Atlantic blue crab, Callinectes sapidus on the Eastern Adriatic coast (Croatia, Montenegro)

L Glamuzina, A Pešić, O Marković, J Tomanić… - … znanstveni časopis za …, 2023‏ - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak The Atlantic blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, is a highly invasive species that poses
a significant threat to Mediterranean ecosystems. In the last two decades, it has become …

Variability in length–weight relationships used to estimate biomass of estuarine fish from survey data

W Kimmerer, SR Avent, SM Bollens… - Transactions of the …, 2005‏ - academic.oup.com
The biomass of fish populations is often calculated from abundance‐by‐length data using
length–weight (LW) relationships from separate studies (eg, from the literature). Estimates of …

Coupling age-structured stock assessment and fish bioenergetics models: a system of time-varying models for quantifying piscivory patterns during the rapid trophic …

JX He, JR Bence, CP Madenjian… - Canadian Journal of …, 2015‏ - cdnsciencepub.com
We quantified piscivory patterns in the main basin of Lake Huron during 1984–2010 and
found that the biomass transfer from prey fish to piscivores remained consistently high …

Spatio-Temporal Variation in Length-Weight Relationships and Condition of the Ribbonfish Trichiurus lepturus (Linnaeus, 1758): Implications for Fisheries …

A Al Nahdi, C Garcia de Leaniz, AJ King - PloS one, 2016‏ - journals.plos.org
Knowledge of length-weight relationships for commercially exploited fish is an important tool
for assessing and managing of fish stocks. However, analyses of length-weight relationship …

[PDF][PDF] Length-weight relationships for 74 fish species collected during NEFSC research vessel bottom trawl surveys, 1992-99

SE Wigley, HM McBride, NJ McHugh - 2003‏ - repository.library.noaa.gov
This study is the first comprehensive examination of spatially and temporally synoptic length-
weight observations collected along the Northeast coast of the United States during the …

Estimating lake-wide abundance of spawning-phase sea lampreys (Petromyzon marinus) in the Great Lakes: extrapolating from sampled streams using regression …

KM Mullett, JW Heinrich, JV Adams, RJ Young… - Journal of Great Lakes …, 2003‏ - Elsevier
Lake-wide abundance of spawning-phase sea lampreys (Petromyzon marinus) can be used
as one means to evaluate sea lamprey control efforts in the Great Lakes. Lake-wide …

Preliminary evaluation of some aspects of the ecology (growth pattern, condition factor and reproductive biology) of African pike, Hepsetus odoe (Bloch 1794), in Lake …

OS Ogunola, OA Onada, AE Falaye - Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 2018‏ - Springer
A preliminary investigation of length-weight relationship, condition factor and reproductive
ecology of African pike fish, Hepsetus odoe, was conducted between June to August 2010 in …

Modeling framework for establishing the power law between length and weight of fishes and a meta-analysis for validation of LWRs for six commercially important …

G Dash, S Sen, RK Pradhan, S Ghosh, J Josileen… - Fisheries …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Accurate and unbiased modeling of length-weight relationship (LWR) is essential for precise
estimation of biomass from length-based abundance data for aquatic ecosystem modeling …