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Growth, age-otolith weight and length relationship of garfish in the eastern Adriatic Sea

Otoliths of 468 garfish specimens (28.3>TL>75.4 cm ; mean TL=42.5±10.44 cm), caught in the eastern part of the Adriatic Sea from January 2003 to December 2008, were studied to provide information on their age and growth pattern. Estimated von Bertalanffy growth parameters were: L∞=106.0cm, K=0.11 year-1and t0= - 0.682. Otoliths were also weighted and power relationship was obtained between otolith weight and total somatic length (Wo=0.0012TL2.189, r2=0.9047) and otolith weight and garfish age (Wo=0.568t1.486, r2=0.9944).

Garfish; age; growth; otolith weight; Adriatic

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