Relationships between total length and otolith size of bluefish Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus, 1766) in the Marmara Sea of Turkey

Authors : Habib Bal, Telat Yanık, Dilek Türker

Pages : 38-44

Doi:10.28978/nesciences.379319

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Publication Date : 2018-01-04

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :In the present study, bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix, was monthly collected from commercial fishing boats operating in the Marmara Sea between January and December 2014. The relationship between total length and otolith size of 346 bluefish samples were examined. Total lengths of females, males and unidentified samples were ranged from between 13.2-37.0, 12.3-34.8 and 13.0-31.6 cm, respectively. Otolith lengths were between 3.82-12.60 mm and otolith width were between 1.59-4.34 mm for all samples. It was found that there is a strong correlations between otolith length-total length insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(r2 =0.88); and otolith width-total length insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(r2 0.81);.
Keywords : Pomatomus saltatrix, otolith length, otolith breadth