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| Field | Value |
| Title | Morphometric measurements as an index for estimating yield of meat in shell fishes-II. Mussel (Pernaviridis) and clam (Villorita cyprinoides) |
| Names |
Chinnamma George
Unnithan, G.R. Gopakumar, K. |
| Date Issued | 1986 (iso8601) |
| Abstract | Observations (76 nos) on height-length and whole weight-meat weight relations of mussels (Perna viridis), both wild and cultured were made. From the length of mussel the height can be worked out by the equations (logarithmic scale), 1. y = 0.360 + 0.988 x for wild 2. y = 0.334 + 1.011 x for cultured, where xis the length (cm) and y is the height (ems). So also to any height the corresponding meat weight can be obtained by the regression equation. log w = -0.8178 + 1.9769 log H for wild variety (1) log w = -1.3049 + 2.8385 log H for culture-variety (2) where w is the meat weight (g) and H is the height (cm) of the mussel. Fourteen observations on size-weight measurements of dams were made. The yield varied from 8.9 to 13%. The length-height relationship worked out for clams (Villorita sp) is y=0.485+ 1.005 x for length x and height y. |
| Genre | Article |
| Identifier | Fish Technol.23(2):178-182 |