Length-weight relationships for 16 freshwater fishes caught in tributaries of Euphrates and Orontes rivers in Gaziantep (southeastern Anatolia, Turkey)

Abstract

In fisheries biology, length-weight (L-W) relationships are useful for the conversion of growth-in-length equations to growth-in-weight for use in stock assessment models and to estimate stock biomass from limited sample sizes (according to Binohlan and Pauly, 1998; Koutrakis and Tsikliras, 2003; Valle et al., 2003; Ecoutin et al., 2005; Verdiell-Cubedo et al., 2006). In this study the L-W relationships and length-length (L-L) conversion relationships are reported for 16 species of freshwater fish caught from rivers of Gaziantep, southern Anatolia.