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- Title
Use of the SLW index to calculate growth function in the sea cucumber Isostichopus badionotus.
- Authors
Poot-Salazar, Alicia; Hernández-Flores, Álvaro; Ardisson, Pedro-Luis
- Abstract
Age and growth analysis is essential to fisheries management. Indirect methods to calculate growth are widely used; however, length frequency data analysis in sea cucumbers is complicated by high data variability caused by body wall elasticity. Here we calculated Isostichopus badionotus parameters of the von Bertalanffy growth function. In order to address bias produced by body wall elasticity, we compared the performance of four measurements and one compound index that combines different biometric parameters: the square root of the length-width product (SLW). Results showed that variability in length data due to body wall elasticity was controlled by using body length (Le) from the SLW compound index. Growth in I. badionotus follows a negative allometric tendency. Slow or zero growth periods were observed during October and November, when weather conditions were adverse.
- Subjects
FISHERY management; DATA analysis; SEA cucumbers; ELASTICITY; BIOMETRY
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2014, p1
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/srep05151