Estimation of Coregonus ussuriensis age, growth, and maturation in China’s Amur River

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Aquatic Biology

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Introduction

Materials and Methods

Sampling

Otolith processing and aging

Growth

where Lt is the FL at the age t (years), L is the theoretical maximum FL, k is the growth coefficient, ti is the age (i), t0 is the hypothetical age at FL 0. To compare and analyze the growth of Coregonus ussuriensis and other Salmonidae species, the growth performance index (φ) was used. The formula was described as: φ=log10k+2log10L.

Reproduction

where pi is the proportion of mature individuals to FL, q is a constant, r is the intercept and FL50% is the size at first maturity, which was calculated using the formula. Only individuals from the spawning period (October and November) were used for this analysis. The gonad is considered to be mature at stage IV or higher.

where GW is the gonad weight. Only the samples that had gonads at stage III and higher were used to determine GSI.

Results

Size structure

Age structure

Growth characteristics

Maturation

Discussion

Body size of the samples

Age and growth

Maturation

Conclusion

Supplemental Information

FL, TL, BW and sex data.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12817/supp-1

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Jilong Wang conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Wei Liu analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Peilun Li analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Fujiang Tang analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Wanqiao Lu analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The basic data for the body size, age and other factors are available as a Supplemental File.

Funding

This work was supported by the Central Public-Interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund (grant no. HSY201513), the Special Financial Funds of Species Resources Conservation project of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China (grant no. 2130135) and Special project on agricultural financial fund from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China entiled “Survey of fishery resources and environment in key waters of Northeast China”. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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