INTRoduCTIoN The 'fecundity'of a fish is defined as the number of eggs that are likely to be
laid during a spawning season (Bagenal 1957). The reproductive potential, ie, fecundity is …

Abstract The Indian river shad, Gudusia chapra (Hamilton, 1822), is a commercially
important freshwater clupeid that contribute to the livelihood of subsistence and marginal …

The present study aims to estimate the size at first sexual maturity and fecundity for female
Gudusia chapra from the lower Ganges River, northwestern Bangladesh. A total of 250 …

Population biology including population structure, reproduction, length-weight relationship
and condition factor of a commercially important clupeid freshwater fish, Gudusia chapra …

Morphometric characters of fishes are measurable or metric characters. Morphometrics is a
more or less interwoven set of large statistical procedures to analyze variability in the size …

Different morphometric characters such as total length (TL), standard length (SL), head
length (HL), eye diameter (ED), body depth (BD), pre-orbital length (POL) were measured on …

The Indian river shad, Gudusia chapra, is a commercially important clupeid that contributes
to subsistence and artisanal fisheries in inland waters in Bangladesh. Population …

Thirteen morphometric characters of catfish Silurus triostegus were studied from three
localities on the Tigris and Shatt al-Arab rivers, Iraq. Monthly samples revealed no significant …

Morphometric and meristic characters of the Arius gigas species were examined from two
study areas (New Calabar and Degema Rivers) for a period of six months in Rivers State …

The length–weight relationship and relative condition factor of the shovel nose catfish, Arius
subrostratus (Valenciennes, 1840) from Champakkara backwater were studied by …