WEIGHT-LENGTH RELATIONSHIP OF 57 FISH SPECIES OF THE COASTAL RIVERS IN SOUTH-EASTERN OF IVORY COAST

Summary Weight–length relationships (WLR) of 57 fish species belonging to 22 families from the coastal rivers of the south–eastern of Ivory Coast were studied. Samples were collected with two fleets of monofilament gill nets. The value of the exponent b in the WLR ( W=aL b ) ranged from 2.213 to 3.729. The mean and the median values were 2.892 and 2.899 respectively, whereas 50% of the value ranged between 2.787 and 3.048. For 11 species, these relationships are described for the first time for this sub–region.

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