Morphometrics and length-weight relationship of Schizothorax curvifrons Heckel 1838 in River Jhelum, Kashmir, India.

Qadri, Sauliheen; Shah, Tasaduq H.; Balkhi, M. H.; Bhat, Bilal A.; Bhat, F. A.; Najar, A. M.; Asmi, Oyas A.; Farooq, Iram; Alia, Syed

Schizothorax curvifrons, an indigenous cyprinid fish of Kashmir, forms an important coldwater fishery resource of the valley. This study was aimed to describe the morphometrics and length-weight relationship of S. curvifrons in River Jhelum Kashmir. The various morphometric characters showed high co-efficient of correlation (r) values, indicating that the characters were highly correlated to each other. The length-weight relationship was established logarithmically as Log W = -3.9323 2.5863 Log L (r²=0.746) for males, Log W = -4.1708 2.6852 (r²=0.745) Log L for females and Log W = -3.9975 2.6138 Log L (r²=0.746) for pooled data. The b value (2.6138) was found to be significantly different from 3 indicating negative allometric growth.

JHELUM River (India & Pakistan); MORPHOMETRICS; SCHIZOTHORAX; FISHERY co-management; ALLOMETRIC equations

Indian Journal of Animal Research, 2017, Vol 51, Issue 3, p453

0367-6722

Academic Journal

10.18805/ijar.v0i0f.3787