Summary
Weight–length relationships are presented for 63 fish species sampled with a commercial trawl vessel at depths ranging from 28 to 370 m between February 2005 and April 2006 in Saros Bay, Turkey. Saros Bay was closed to trawl fishery in 2000, thus, most of the demersal fish species sampled were relatively undisturbed.
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Length‐weight relationships are presented for ten shark species sampled with a commercial trawl vessel at depths ranging from 5 to 500 m between March 2005 and June 2008 in Saros Bay, Turkey. The values of the exponent b of the length‐weight relationships ranged from 2.6816 to 3.6060.
The age, growth, reproduction, and feeding of longnosed skate (Dipturus oxyrinchus) were studied using 179 specimens from the Saros Bay (North Aegean Sea) between March 2005 and December 2007. Composition was 49.7% females and 50.3% males. Total length of females ranged from 14.9 to 100 cm (disc width, 9.8-65 cm), and of males from 15.2 to 86.5 cm (disc width, 10-57.5 cm). Total length-weight and disc widthweight relationships are described by the equations W = 0.0008*TL 3.35 and W = 0.0043*DW 3.29 , respectively. The age data, derived from vertebrae readings, were used to estimate the growth parameters of the von Bertalanffy equation: L ¥ = 256.46 cm, K = 0.04 year )1 , t 0 = )1.17year. The maximum age was 9 years. Males matured at 64-65 cm (disc width, 43.5 cm) and females at 82-83 cm TL (disc width, 53 cm). The stomach contained mainly Parapenaus longirostris, IRI: 93.47%.
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