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Research Paper | Zoology | India | Volume 5 Issue 10, October 2016

Relationship of Fecundity with Length and Weight of Clarias batrachus from Aurangabad (MS)

Vinod R Ragade

Abstract: Fish is a divine Creation and plays an important role in the process of evolution. It has happened as the greatest source of information regarding the clock of the biological rhythm. The biological rhythm amongst other animals has much more affinities with the fish. As time passed, a tremendous progress in every aspect of life has been taken place. Various natural resources have also been utilized into coping with the increasing population. As agriculture techniques are developed, need of the food requirement is coped with. Similarly, due to increase in pollution level of all kinds, soil fertility and water quality have been adversely affected. To meet the food requirement man started exploiting the aquatic resources for food. Fish is rich in proteins and thus plays important role in nutrition. Length and weight are the most important parameters to study the reproductive capacity of fish that is the fecundity of fish. In present investigation the relationship of length and weight with respect to the spawning capacity has been taken into consideration.

Keywords: Length, Weight, Fecundity

Edition: Volume 5 Issue 10, October 2016,

Pages: 368 - 370

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