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Some aspects of morphometric relationship and food and feeding in Caranx carangus (Bloch) from Tuticorin

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Title Some aspects of morphometric relationship and food
and feeding in Caranx carangus (Bloch) from Tuticorin
 
Creator Ameer Hamsa, K M S
Mohamad Kasim, H
 
Subject Fish biology
 
Description The paired comparisons of morphometric characters of Caranx carangus reveal that all the four variables;
fork length, body depth, eye diameter and wet weight have a very high significant relationship with total
length. Regression equations are given for the four pairs of comparisons, along with the correlation
coefficient V and students Y.
The food and feeding study reveals that the dominant food was fish followed by crustaceans like prawns
and crabs. Stolephorus was the dominant food and preferred well by Caranx carangus, followed by sardines,
Leiognathus, Metapenaeus spp., Thrissocles, Penaeus indicus and Portunus pelagicus as indicated by
the index of preponderance. Except in certain months there was a high correlation between the relative
condition (Kn) and the volume of food. The young ones measuring upto 149 mm sustain themselves
only on prawns and those bigger than 150 mm thrive mainly on fish, prawn and crab in that order.
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1989
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/313/1/Article_06.pdf
Ameer Hamsa, K M S and Mohamad Kasim, H (1989) Some aspects of morphometric relationship and food and feeding in Caranx carangus (Bloch) from Tuticorin. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 36 (3). pp. 205-210.