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| Elizabeth Keenan; Sarah Warner; Ashley Crowe; Michael Courtney. |
| Background: Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) are important to both commercial aquaculture and recreational fisheries. Little published data is available on length-weight relationships of channel catfish in Michigan. Though there is no record of public or private stocking, channel catfish appeared in Lake Diane between 1984 and 1995 and it has developed into an excellent fishery. 
Materials and Methods: Sport angling provided 38 samples which were weighed and measured (fork length). Fillets were also weighed. The best fit estimates of parameters a and b in the model, W(L) = aLb, were obtained by both linear least-squares (LLS) regression (log(W) = log(a) + b log(L)) and non-linear least-squares (NLLS) regression. Best-fit... |
| Tipo: Manuscript |
Palavras-chave: Ecology. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/5706/version/1 |
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