Otolith morphometry and fish length relation of Amblypharyngodon mola (Ham.) from Middle Ganga region (India)

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine a correlation between the length, width and weight of otoliths and the length and weight of fish samples of Amblypharyngodon mola (Hamilton,1822), a Rasborine fish caught from Middle Ganga region. Total length (TL) measurements were made with a 1mm precision fish length measuring scale. Image J software was used for measuring otolith length and width. This study shows strong correlation between fish length (TL), otolith length (OL) and width (OW), and similarly shows the correlation between Fish weight (TW) with otolith mass (test, P<0.05). According to this study, Otolith size depends on the fish length and fish weight and the regression coefficients between the relationship of fish length and fish weight with otolith measurements was found to be the best indicator for estimating the growth of fish.

Some Aspects of Reproduction in Amblypharyngodon mola from Sylhet, Northeast Bangladesh

“…This fish has drawn significant commercial and cultural value due to its premium nutritional value (Abdulla et al, 2004;Alam et al, 2004;Shikha et al, 2019) and current adoption as ornamental fish in aquarium (Gupta & Banerjee, 2015). Currently this species is also subjected to coculturation with other cyprinid fish or in traditional pond culture technique to supplement domestic food supply in South Asian countries (Neetu & Seema, 2018). This fish is considered as one of the major species to meet the rural nutrition supplement and also constitutes the principle target of small scale artisanal fishing practices in Bangladesh (Bengal et al, 2017).…”