Estimating length-weight, length-length relationships, and condition factor of eight fish species, a case study of Bashar River, Tigris drainage (Iran)

Saeid Shahbazi Naserabad; Hadi Poorbagher; Soheil Eagderi

doi:10.12714/egejfas.39.4.09

Research Article

Estimating length-weight, length-length relationships, and condition factor of eight fish species, a case study of Bashar River, Tigris drainage (Iran)

Year 2022, Volume: 39 Issue: 4, 332 - 337, 15.12.2022

Saeid Shahbazi Naserabad Hadi Poorbagher Soheil Eagderi

https://doi.org/10.12714/egejfas.39.4.09

Abstract

This study investigate investigated the length-weight, length-length relationships and condition factor of eight fish species collected from Bashar River, Tigris drainage by sampling 341 specimens of Alburnus sellal (Heckel, 1843), Barbus karunensis (Khaefi, Esmaeili, Geiger & Eagderi, 2017), Capoeta aculeate (Valenciennes, 1844), Capoeta coadi (Alwan, Zareian & Esmaeili, 2016), Chondrostoma regium (Heckel, 1843), Garra gymnothorax (Berg, 1949), Glyptothorax galaxias (Mousavi-Sabet, Eagderi, Vatandoust & Freyhof, 2021) and Turcinoemacheilus hafezi (Golzarianpour, Abdoli, Patimar & Freyhof, 2013). The results showed that the b parameter was form 2.41 (in C. aculeate) to 3.88 (in A. sellal) and condition factors ranged from 0.74 (in A. sellal and B. karunensis) to 1.35 (in C. aculeate). The coefficient of determination (r²) in the length-weight and length-length relationships was > 0.83. In conclusion, allometric growth patterns for A. sellal, B. karunensis, G. gymnothorax, and G. galaxias were positive while for C. aculata, C. regium and T. hafezi, and C. coadi presented negative patterns. This study represents the first data for G. galaxias.

Keywords

Length-weight relationship, Bashar River, Iranian inland waters, LLRs, fishery management

Thanks

We are pleased to thank Atta Mouludi-Saleh and Zaniar Ghafouri for helping with fish collection. This study was funded by Tehran University.

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