Combining Weight-Length Relationships and condition factors to estimate the population structure for Skipjack tuna in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean
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- Subject Areas
- Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science, Marine Biology, Zoology
- Keywords
- skipjack tuna, weight-Length relationship, condition factor, Western and Central Pacific Ocean
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- © 2014 Jin et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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- 2014. Combining Weight-Length Relationships and condition factors to estimate the population structure for Skipjack tuna in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean. PeerJ PrePrints 2:e610v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.610v1
Abstract
The arguments between Weight-Length Relationship (WLR) and Condition Factor (K) have been lasted since the day they occurred. This paper described WLRs and Ks of Skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) samples in Purse Seine fisheries from three cruises (August-September cruise (A-S) in 2009, November-December cruise (N-D) in 2012, and June-July cruise (J-J) in 2013) in the Central and Western Pacific Ocean (CWPO). The results showed that fork length of more than 70% of specimen was below 60 cm (76% in A-S, 87% in N-D, and 73% in J-J). b values of WLRs in class of fork length > 60cm were below 3 significantly (P = 0.062), while b values when fork length < 60 cm were > 3 significantly (P = 0.028). Moreover, K values in different fork length classes for each cruises had one turning point: 60-65cm for J-J, 60-65cm for N-D, and 55-60cm for A-S, and K values were still significantly larger than those of fork length < 40cm (P = 0.06). However, b values at larger fishes were significantly smaller than those of fork length <40cm. We suggest to combine WLRs and K values at different growth phases for evaluating population structure for skipjack tuna.
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This is a submission to PeerJ for review.
Supplemental Information
Raw data of fork length(cm), weight(g), and locations over all cruises in this study
Sheet 1 is the raw data of fork length, weight in different cruies, sheet 2 is the location information of different sampling staitons, sheet 3 is the dataset of length-weight relationships of skipjack tuna from the FishBase, and sheet 4 is the explanations for all the symbols in the sheets.