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Population Dynamics of Commercial Fish, Gerres filamentosus Cuvier, 1829 (Family: Gerreidae) along the Coast of South West India

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Population parameters of Gerres filamentosus Cuvier, 1829 (Family: Gerreidae) along the south west coast of India were assessed using FiSAT II software for samples collected from July 2009 to June 2011. The asymptotic lengths (L∞), growth constants (K) and lengths at first maturity (Lm50) for female and male were 304.5 mm, 0.40 year−1, 203.0 mm and 283.5 mm, 0.45 year−1, 189.0 mm, respectively. The annual instantaneous rates of total mortality (Z), fishing mortality (F), the natural mortality (M) and the lengths at first capture for female and male were estimated at 1.43 year−1, 0.98 year−1, 0.45 year−1 and 123.5 mm, and 1.49 year−1, 1.08 year−1, 0.41 year−1 and 130.9 mm, respectively. The exploitation rate was 0.31 for females and 0.28 for males. The values of exploitation rates for female and male were found to be lower than 0.50 (optimum level), which pointed toward under fishing condition in the fishery of Mangalore.

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The first author is thankful to the fishers who obtained the sample and always are willing to help and teach us their knowledge of the fish. He is also grateful to the University Grants Commission (Government of India) for the fellowship under the Faculty Improvement Programme (FIP), and the authorities of Mangalore University for providing research facility.

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  1. Department of Applied Zoology, Mangalore University, Mangalore, 574 199, India

    Narasimhaiah N. & Rajashekhar K. Patil

  2. Department of Fisheries Resource Management, College of Fisheries, Mangalore-575 002, Mangalore, India

    Shivaprakash Sonnada Matada

  3. Department of Biosciences, Mangalore University, Mangalore, 574 199, India

    Yambem Tenjing Singh

  4. Department of Environmental Science, Bir Tikendrajit University, Canchipur, 795 003, India

    Yambem Tenjing Singh

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N., N., Patil, R.K., Matada, S.S. et al. Population Dynamics of Commercial Fish, Gerres filamentosus Cuvier, 1829 (Family: Gerreidae) along the Coast of South West India. Thalassas 37, 851–859 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41208-021-00333-0

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