“…Similarly, Jawad et al (2011c) showed the same results on Lutjanus benghalensis from Omani waters. The relationship between otolith length width and fish body proportions is related to the growth rate of the fish (Mugiya and Tanaka, 1992) and these relationship became curvilinear in some larval or juvenile fishes (West and Larkin, 1987), such curvilinearity was observed in the present study, but not in the previous similar studies on fishes from Oman (Al-Mamry et al, 2010;Jawad et al, 2011a;Jawad and Al-Mamry, 2012). Harvey et al (2000), Waessle et al (2003) and Battaglia et al (2010) have suggested that there is a possibility of getting error in the final results of the relationship between otolith dimensions and fish size due to changes in this relationship during the life history of the fish and as the fish length changes (Frost and Lowry, 1981;Hare and Cowen, 1995).…”