@article{article_565282, title={The Length–Weight Relationship and Condition Factor of a Non-Native Fish Species: Striped Sea Bream (Lithognathus mormyrus L., 1758) in the Black Sea}, journal={Journal of Anatolian Environmental and Animal Sciences}, volume={4}, pages={319–324}, year={2019}, DOI={10.35229/jaes.565282}, url={https://izlik.org/JA78GG32HY}, author={Aydın, Mehmet and Sözer, Adil}, keywords={Black Sea,length,Lithognathus mormyrus}, abstract={<font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font> <p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"> <span lang="en-us" style="font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;font-size:12pt;" xml:lang="en-us">In this study, length-weight
relationship and condition factor of <i>L. mormyrus </i> were determined in the
Black Sea. </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;font-size:12pt;" xml:lang="en-us">306 individuals </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;font-size:12pt;" xml:lang="en-us">(170 female and 136 male) </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;font-size:12pt;" xml:lang="en-us">of the species were caught between 2017and 2018 with
trammel nets. </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;font-size:12pt;" xml:lang="en-us">The mean
length and the mean weight of the specimens were determined as 18.18 cm <u>+ </u>
2.01 (Min:15.7 - Max:31.0) and 79.16 g <u>+ </u> 38.20 (Min:49.23 - Max:393.8),
respectively. </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;font-size:12pt;" xml:lang="en-us">The length - weight
relationship was described by the following formula </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;font-size:12pt;" xml:lang="en-us"> W = 0.0147 L <sup> <span> <font size="2">2.9475 </font> </span> </sup>(R²
= 0.9421) with a negative allometric growth. </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;font-size:12pt;" xml:lang="en-us"> </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;font-size:12pt;" xml:lang="en-us">Fulton condition
factor (K) was calculated, 1.17 for all samples. </span> </p> <font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font>}, number={3}