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Year: 2004 | Volume: 4 | Issue: 3 | Page No.: 342-344
DOI: 10.3923/jbs.2004.342.344
Studies on Age, Growth and Virtual Population Analysis of Coilia dussumieri from the Neritic Water of Bangladesh
S. M. Nurul Amin and M. Zafar

Abstract: In the present study age, growth and virtual population analysis (VPA) has been estimated by the FiSAT program from length-frequency data collected from the Kutubdia channel of the Bay of Bengal. Growth parameters L ∞ and K were found to be 16.80 cm and 1.30/year, respectively. This fish attained 12.06 cm at the end of one year. The estimated length-weight relation for the combined sex was found to be W=0.00383TL2.801. The asymptotic weight (W ∞ ) was 10.36 g. The highest peak of fishing mortality (F) occurs in the length range between 12 and 14 cm.

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S. M. Nurul Amin and M. Zafar, 2004. Studies on Age, Growth and Virtual Population Analysis of Coilia dussumieri from the Neritic Water of Bangladesh. Journal of Biological Sciences, 4: 342-344.

Keywords: Age, growth and C. dussumieri

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