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Title: Growth parameters of the clupeids Limnothrissa miodon and Stolothrissa tanganicae in northern Lake Tanganyika(Bujumbura sub-basin)
Authors: Mulimbwa, N'sibula T.
Gordo-Vilaseca, Cesc
MILEC, Leona 
Patel, Deepti M.
Kankonda, Busanga Alidor
Micha, Jean-Claude
Sarvala, Jouko
Raeymaekers, Joost A. M.
Issue Date: 2024
Publisher: ROYAL BELGIAN ZOOLOGICAL SOC
Source: Belgian journal of zoology, 154 , p. 117 -137
Abstract: The analysis of growth parameters in fish stocks, such as the asymptotic length (L infinity) infinity ) and the curvature parameter (K), is crucial for the estimation of production rates and total mortality rates in fisheries management. Here, we estimated the growth parameters of the clupeids Limnothrissa miodon and Stolothrissa tanganicae in the northern part of Lake Tanganyika (Bujumbura sub-basin). Both species are important targets of pelagic fisheries, but the available estimates are based on scarce size frequency data, and rarely on size as a function of age data. We provide new estimates of L infinity infinity and K based on size as a function of age data, with age being inferred from otolith weights. Furthermore, we reanalyze several existing length frequency datasets using advanced statistical procedures to test if growth parameters estimated by length frequency analysis are consistent with those obtained from size as a function of age. We found that length frequency analysis consistently underestimates L infinity infinity and overestimates K as compared to length-at-age data. We recommend that length-at-age data are collected at a much broader spatial and temporal scale than currently available to advance our understanding of the growth dynamics of these two sardine species. This will improve the assessment of stock productivity of Lake Tanganyika's pelagic fisheries and the conservation of these economically important fish species.
Notes: Mulimbwa, NT (corresponding author), Ctr Rech Hydrobiol, POB 73, Sud Kivu, DEM REP CONGO.
mulimbwa49@gmail.com
Keywords: Growth;size frequency analysis;daily increments of otoliths;Stolothrissa tanganicae;Limnothrissa miodon;Lake Tanganyika;Bujumbura sub-basin
Document URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1942/44600
ISSN: 0777-6276
e-ISSN: 2295-0451
DOI: 10.26496./bjz.2024.184
ISI #: 001334955100009
Rights: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0)
Category: A1
Type: Journal Contribution
Appears in Collections:Research publications

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