Title
Improving data deficiencies in length-weight relationships for fish species around an artificial breakwater and adjacent soft-bottom at the central coast of Peru
Date Issued
01 February 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Abstract
Long-term environmental monitoring studies includes morphometric data (length and weight) of aggregating fish species around this artificial structure and adjacent soft-bottom habitats. We used these data, obtained biannually (summer and spring) between 2012 and 2018, to estimate population parameters such as length-weight relationships (LWRs) for 28 species. Gender and ontogeny-based differences in LWR were determined in four species, while novel LWR information was generated for all other species.
Start page
150
End page
157
Volume
37
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Acuicultura
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85089133913
Source
Journal of Applied Ichthyology
ISSN of the container
01758659
Sponsor(s)
This study was possible thanks to the support of PERU LNG and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. Special thanks to our outstanding field researchers that have joined our surveys since 2012: R. Canales, R.M. Cañedo, J. Esplana, K. Farfan, D. Hinostroza, B. Ibañez, A. Jimenez, L. Llaja, R. Pichinlingüe, E. Quispe, A. Romaní, A. Roque, and F. Tapia and to Karim Ledesma and Bruno Vildoso for coordinating all survey logistics for the BMAP‐Perú. Thanks to Hadrien Vanthomme for early comments for improving the manuscript. This publication is contribution No. 59 of the Biodiversity Monitoring and Assessment Program, implemented by the Center for Conservation and Sustainability of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.
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