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Length-Weight Relationships of three Fish Species in the Sea of Marmara, Turkey

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Length-weight relationships (LWRs) are investigated for three fish species which sampled with a beam trawl between September 2011–July 2014 in the Sea of Marmara, Turkey: Callionymus maculatus (Rafinesque, 1810), Gaidropsarus biscayensis (Collett, 1890) and Lepidorhombus boscii (Risso, 1810). The data of length-weight relationship were found with W = 0.0042*L3.13(n = 20), TW = 0.0090*TL2.74 (n = 120) and TW = 0.0108*TL2.92 (n = 19), respectively. According to LWRs results C. maculatus showed positive allometry, G. biscayensis presented negative allometric growth and L. boscii isometric growth. The information about this issue are reported for the first time in the Sea of Marmara for such species. In this way this study is important with new results.

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This study financially supported by TAGEM project no: TAGEM / HAYSÜD / 2011 / 09 / 02 /04. And the authors would like to thanks the staffs who helped in the laboratory and in the field work.

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  1. Marine Science and Technology Faculty, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, 17100, Canakkale, Turkey

    Ali Ismen & Mukadder Arslan Ihsanoglu

  2. Republic of Turkey of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, General Directorate of Agriculture Research and Policy, Balikesir, Turkey

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Ismen, A., Arslan Ihsanoglu, M. & Inceoglu, H. Length-Weight Relationships of three Fish Species in the Sea of Marmara, Turkey. Thalassas 34, 373–376 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41208-018-0074-1

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