Length-weight relationships for 13 fish species from the gulf of Gabes (Southern Tunisia, Central Mediterranean)

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 37, 2010, Pages 6177-6181

  Ghailen, Hajjej ^a   Abdallah, Hattour ^a   Hassan, Allaya ^b   Mourad, Cherif ^a   Abderrahmen, Bouain ^c   Othman, Jarboui ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LA MER   (Tunisia)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^c Faculté des Sciences de Sfax   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Condition factor; Fish species; Gulf of gabes; Length weight

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CORYPHAENA HIPPURUS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; EUTHYNNUS ALLETTERATUS; FEMALE; FISH; MALE; NONHUMAN; PISCICULTURE; SAMPLE SIZE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TUNISIA;

CORYPHAENA HIPPURUS; EUTHYNNUS ALLETTERATUS;

EID: 77958005439     PISSN: 16845315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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