Length-Weight Relationships and Condition ... - Semantic Scholar

7 downloads 0 Views 160KB Size Report
Oct 9, 2010 - (Polynemidae, elopidae, mormyridae, mugilidae, clupeidae, schilbeidae, sphyraenidae, gobiidae, monodactylidae, carangidae, channidae ...
Asian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 2(4): 174-179, 2010 ISSN: 2041-3890 © M axwell Scientific Organization, 2010 Submitted Date: June 16, 2010 Accepted Date: August 19, 2010

Published Date: October 09, 2010

Length-Weight Relationships and Condition Factors of Twenty-One Fish Species in Ologe Lagoon, Lagos, Nigeria C.A . Kumolu-Johnson and P .E. Ndimele Departm ent of Fisheries, Faculty of Science, Lagos State University, O jo, Lagos, Nigeria Abstract: This study describes the length-weight relationships (LWR) and condition factors of 21 fish species from 15 families of ecological and economic importance, found in Ologe Lagoon, Lagos, Nigeria. A total of 1353 specimens we re caught by local fishing gears from January, 20 07 to December, 2007. The slope (b) values obtained for the 21 fish species ranged from 2.012 to 2.991, and diferred significantly (p