Length-weight relationships of 10 fish species from two tributaries of Indus River Basin in Jammu and Kashmir, India

Abstract

Length-weight relationships (LWRs) are described for 10 fish species belonging to three families from the Jhelum and Poonch River, tributaries of the Indus river basin in India. LWRs for these species were unknown to FishBase and new maximum lengths are recorded for three species. These results will be useful for fishery research, management and conservation in these tributaries of Jammu and Kashmir.

Length-weight relationship of six freshwater fish species from Wular Lake - A Ramsar site in Kashmir Himalaya, India

“…For Pethia conchonius and Crossochelius diplochilus, the maximum values of total length used for estimation of length weight relationship were 9.8 cm and 15.0 cm, while earlier reported maximum values for the same were 25.7 cm for Pethia conchonius from lakes of Kumaon Himalaya, Uttarakhand (Negi and Negi, 2009) and 18.1 cm for Crossocheilus diplochilus from two tributaries of Indus river basin, Jammu and Kashmir (Bashir et al, 2015). Similarly, for Triplophysa marmorata, the maximum total length range of 14.4 cm was used as against previous report of 14.5 cm from two tributaries of Indus river basin, Jammu and Kashmir (Bashir et al, 2015). For Schizothorax niger, S. esocinus and S. curvifrons, the maximum values of total length were 34.7, 30.9, 32.3, respectively against the maximum values of total…”