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Mystus cavasius a Bagirid catfish is one of the commercially important fish. Paper presents the first report on any biological aspect of this important catfish. Studies on Length-weight relationship and condition factor of M. cavasius at downstream of Indus River near Thatta District were carried out from March to July 2013. A total of 391 specimens including 177 male and 214 female were used for the study. The total length of male population ranged between 7.5 to 18.5 cm and in female population ranged 7.8 to 23.5 cm. The female population dominated over the male in the number, and it also attains larger size than male. The exponent b values of male, female and combined population were calculated as 2.51, 2.57 and 2.54 respectively, that indicate the negative allometric growth. This research reports the first study on Length-weight relationship of M. cavasius from Indus River.
Keywords: Mystus cavasius, Catfish, Length-weight relationship, condition factor, Indus River.##plugins.themes.academic_pro.article.details##
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Khalid Hussain Lashar1A. N. S. A. B. Z. A. L. Z. ali P., & Shagufta Saddozai2G. M. M. ,. (2015). Length-weight relationship and condition of Mystus cavasius (Hamilton) from lower Indus River at Thatta District, Sindh, Southern Pakistan. International Journal of Emerging Trends in Science and Technology, 2(02). Retrieved from http://igmpublication.org/ijetst.in/index.php/ijetst/article/view/516
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3. Dulcic, J and Kraljevic, M., (1996). Weight-length relationships for 40 fish species in the eastern Adriatic (Croatian waters). Fish. Res. 28, 243–251.
4. Gupta, S., Banerjee, S., (2013). Studies on reproductive biology of Mystus tengara (Ham.-Buch., 1822), a freshwater catfish ofWest Bengal, India. International Journal of Aquatic Biology.1(4): 175-184
5. Hossain, M. Y. Md. M. Rehman, B. Fulanda, M. A. S. Jewel, F. Ahmed. And J. Ohtomi. (2012). Length-weight and length-length relationship of five threatened fishes from the Jamuna (Brahmaputra River tributary) River, northern Bangladesh. J. Appl. Ichthyol. 28: 275-277
6. Hossain, M. Y., Rahman, Md. M., Jewel, S., Hosssain, M. A., Ahamed, F., Tumpa, A. S., Abdallah, E. M., Ohtomi, J., (2013). Life History Traits of the Critically Endangered Catfish Eutropiichthys vacha (Hamilton 1822) in the Jamuna (Brahmaputra River Distributary) River, Northern Bangladesh. Sains Malysia. 42(3): 265-277.
7. Hussain, M. G. and Azadi, M. A., (1999). Brood stock management status and some suggestions to control negative selection inbreeding in hatchery stocks Bangladesh. Naga. The ICLARM quarterly. 22: 24-27.
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9. Jayaram K.C. (1977). Aid to identification of siluroid fishes of India, Burma, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh. 1. Bagridae. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper 8, 1–41.
10. Petrakis, G, Stergiou, K. I., (1995). Weight-length relationships for 33 fish species in Greek waters. Fish. Res. 21: 465–469.
11. Jhingran V.G. (1991) Fish and Fisheries of India (3rd edn). Hindustan Publishing Corporation, Delhi, India, 727 pp.
12. Rahman, M. A., Zaher, M., Azimudin, K.M., Yeasmin, S., Khan, M. M. and Arshad, A. 2012. Stocking density effects on growth and production of the threatened silurid catfish, Mystus cavasius (Hamilton) fingerlings in nursery ponds
13. Hossain, M. Y., Rahman, Md M.,B. Fulanda, Jewel, M. A. S., Ahmed, F., and Ohtomi, J., (2012). Length–weight and length–length relationships of five threatened fish species from the Jamuna (Brahmaputra River tributary) River, northern BangladeshJ. Appl. Ichthyol. 28: 275-277
14. Hussain, M. G. and M.A. Mazid. 1999. Bloodstock management status and some suggestions to control negative selection inbreeding in hatchery stocks in Bangladesh. NAGA. The ICLARM Quarterly, 22:24-27
15. Pauly D and Gayanilo, Jr. F. C. (1997). A Bee: An alternative approach to estimating the parameters of a length-weight relationship from length frequency samples and their bulk weights. NAGA ICLARM, Manila, Philippines.
16. Rao T.A., Sharma S.V. (1984). Reproductive biology of Mystus vittatus (Bloch) (Bagridae: Siluriformes) from Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. Hydrobiologia, 119: 21-26.
17. Roy P.K., Hossain M.A. (2006). The fecundity and sex ratio of Mystus cavasius (Hamilton) (Cypriniformes: Bagridae). The Journal of Life and Earth Science, 1(2): 65-66.
18. Safran, P. (1992). Theoretical analysis of the weightlength relationships in fish juveniles. Mar. Biol. 112:545–551.
19. Sandipan Gupta and Samir Banerjee (2013).Studies on reproductive biology of Mystus tengara (Ham.-Buch., 1822), a freshwater catfish of West Bengal, India International Journal of Aquatic Biology 1(4): 175-184
20. Soomro, A. N. Baloch, W. A. Chandio T. J. Achakzai W. M. and S. Saddozai (2012). Condition Factor and Length-Weight Relationship of Monsoon River Prawn Macrobrachium malcolmsonii malcolmsonii (H. Milne-Edwards,1844) (Palaemonidae) in Lower Indus River. Pak. J. Zool. 44(5): 1279-1283.
21. Soomro, A.N., Baloch, W.A., Jafri, S.I.H. & Suzuki, H. 2007. Studies on length-weight and length-length relationships of a catfish Eutropiichthyes vacha Hamilton (Schilbeidae: Siluriformes) from Indus river, Sindh, Pakistan. Caspian Journal of Environmental Science 5(2): 143-145.
22. Musa A.S.M., Bhuiyan A.S. (2007). Fecundity of Mystus bleekeri (Day, 1877) from the River Padma near Rajshahi city. Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 7: 161-162.