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Contrmutions to TROPICAL FISHERIES BIOLOGY - -- - --- - - - - - - - - -- - - - -- - - FAO Fisheries Report No. 389 FIRM~389 CONTRmUTIONS TO TROPICAL FISHERIES BIOLOGY Papers prepared by the participants at the FAO/DANmA Follow-up Tra1ning Courses on FishStock Assess~ent intheTropics Hirtshals, Denmark 5-30 May 1986 Manila, Philippines 12 January -6 February 1986 I DENMARK FUNDS-IN-TRUST GCP/INT/392/DEN FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS --- - - ---- FADrisheries RepOrt No.389 FI 89 aNrRIBUTIOOS 'JX) TROPICAL FISHERIES BIOLOGY . , Papers prepared by the participants at the FAOjDANIDAFollow-up Training Course on Fish stock Assessment in the Tropics Hif,t$hals, Denmark Manila, Philippines .5-30 May 1986 12 January - 6 February 1986 Edi ted by s.c. Venema J.M. Christensen Fishe~ Resources and Danish Institute for Fisheries Environment Division and Marine Research FAD Char10ttenlund Castle 00100 Rome DK-2920 Char10ttenlund Italy Denmark and D. Pauly International Centre for Living Aquatic Resources Management MCP.O. Box 1501 . Makati, Metro Manila Philippines DENMARKFUNDS-IN-TRUST, GCP/INTj392/DEN FOOD AND AGRICUL'lURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS . ROME 1988 -... iii PREPARATICII OF THIS DOCUMENT The papers contained in this document were prepared by participants at two FAO/DANIDA Follow-up Training Courses held at Hirtshals, Denmark, in May 1986, and in Manila, Philippines, in January 1987. All papers were first scrutinized by the lecturers during or shortly after the courses before final editing. A full discussion of the goals and the methods of the courses, organized by the FAO/DANIDA project is presented in an additional paper prepared by the editors. This document was prepared for printing by FAO at the International Centre for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) in Manila, Philippines. Distribution: documentFor biblio6r~hics 0 d bepurEQsescited asthisfollows: DANIDA Venema, S.C., J.M. Christensen and D.pauly, Authors and their Institutes 1988 (eds.), Contributions to tropi- Participantsat the FAOjDANIDA cal fisheries biology. Papers Courses prepared by the participants at Institutes specialised in the FAO/DANIDA Follow-Up Train- Tropical Fish stock Assessment ing Courses on fish stock assess- Institutes of Fisheries Education ment in the tropics. Hirtshals, Interested National and Inter- Denmark, 5 - 30 May 1986 and national Organizations Manila, Philippines, 12 January- FAO Fisheries Department 6 February 1987. FAD Fish.Rep., FAD Regional Fishery Officers (389):519 p. -- -- - vii Contents Training in Tropical Fish Stock Assessment: A Narrative of 'Experience . Siebren C. Venema, Jorgen M. Christensen andDanielPauly. 1 Dynamics of Tropical Commercial Invertebrates Growth, Mortality and Recruitment of the Asian Moon Scallop (Amusium pleuronectes) in the Visayan Sea, Philippines . Ma.EthelGabral-Llana.. 16 Assessment of Indian Squid (£Oligo duvauceli) and Mitre Squid (L. chinensis) in the Gulf of Thailand ·MalaSupongpan.. 25 Growth Parameters and Mortality of the Deep-Sea Red Crab, Geryon quinquedens, off Mozambique. Rui de Paula e Silva. 42 An Analysis of an Inshore Population of Penaeus subtilis in the Gulf of Paria, Trinidad . BorisFabres.. 57 Estimation of Growth and Mortality in Banana Prawn (Penaeus mef.'guiensis)from the South Coast of Java, Indonesia · Bambang Sumiono.. ~. 69 Growth, Mortality and Exploitation Rates of Penaeus indicus in Manila Bay, Philippines and Southeast India . Edna V. Agasen and CorazonM.delMundo. 89 An Assessment of Jinga Shrimp, Metapenaeus affinis (Penaeidae), in Ban Don Bay, Gulf of Thailand . AtcharaVibhasiri.. .. 101 An Assessment of the Southern Velvet Shrimp (Metapenaeopsis palmensis) (Penaeidae)off the Coast of Rayong Province, Gulf of Thailand . Sommai Yoo-Sook-Swat and Wannakiat Thubthi1tlSang.. 117 Dynamics of Tropical Demersal Fishes Population Dynamics of Nemipterus japonicus (Pisces: Nemipteridae) offKedahState,Malaysia.MahyamBintiMohd.lsa~. .. 126 Population Dynamics of Big-Eye Croaker (Pennahia macrophthalmus, Sciaenidae) off Kedah, Penang and Perak States, Malaysia · Abu Talib b. Ahmad. .. 141 Estimation of Growth Parameters and Mortality of Longneck Croaker (Pseudotolithus typus) in Cameroon. Theodore Djama. .. 153 _. u . ___ _ __ ____. v;;; . Population Dynamics of Emperor Red Snapper (Lutjanus sebae) with Notes on the Demersal Fishery of the Mah6 Plateau, Seychelles · Ghis/aineLab/acheand GuidoCarrara. 171 Growth, Mortality and Biomass Estimation of Goat Fish (Upeneus sulphureus) in the Java Sea, Indonesia · SuhendroBudihardjo.. 193 Estimation of Growth Parameters and Mortality Rates for Drepane africanain SenegaleseWaters. DjibyThiam. ! . .. 214 Estimation of Biomass, Growth and Mortality Parameters of Dentex spp. (Sparidae) in SielTa Leonean Waters. Arthur B.C. Jones and RitchieP.Jones.. 229 Estimation of Biomass and Biological Parameters of Pentaprion /ongimanus (GelTeidae) off the North Coast of Java, Indonesia. ErisMulyadi.. .. 246 Dynamics of Tropical Pelagic Fishes Seasonal Growth, Mortality and Recruitment Pattern of Sardinella maderensisoffSenegal.BiraneSamb. .. 257 Growth Parameters and Mortality Rates of Nile Perch (Lates niloticus) Estimated from Length-Frequency Data in the Nyanza Gulf (Lake Victoria) . AndrewA. Asila andJamesOgari. .. 272 Sources of Bias in Growth and Mortality Estimation of Migratory P~lagic Fish Stocks, with Emphasis on Decapterus russelli (Carangidae) in Mozambique . Maria Imelda Rodrigues Fernandese Sousa. .. 288 Population Biology of Russell's Scad (Decapterus russelli) in the Java Sea, Indonesia. Johannes Widodo. 308 Estimation of Growth and Mortality of Round Scad (Decapterus macrosoma) in the Java Sea, Indonesia . Suherman B(;mon Atmadja. 8 8 8 . 8 . ..8 8 324 Growth, Mortality, Recruitment and Exploitation Rate of Selar boops in DavaoGulf,Philippines.ErJindaDy-AJi.. 346 Growth, Mortality and Maximum Sustainable Yield of the Indo-Pacific Mackerel (Rastrelliger brachysoma) off the Southwest Coast of Thailand. VeeraBoonraksa. .. .. 356 Growth and Mortality Estimation of Indian Mackerel (Rastrelliger kanagurta) in the Malacca Strait, Indonesia . Goma/ H. Tampubolon.. 372 -- --- ;x A Study of Growth Parameters and Mortality Rates of Scomberomorus brasiliensis from the Coastal Areas of Trinidad, West Indies · MicheleJulien-Flus.. .'. .. 385 An Assessment of King Mackerel (Scomberomorus commerson) in the Inner Gulf of Thailand · AmaraCheunpan.. ... 401 Discriminant Analysis of Morphometries of the Indian Mackerel (Rastre//iger kanagurta) in the Malacca Strait and Scad (Decapterus russe//i) in the Java Sea, Indonesia. Mina L. Soriano, Gomal Tampubolon and Johannes Widodo . 411 Biological and Technical Interactions in Tropical Multispecies Stocks and Fisheries Aspects of the Lake Victoria Fisheries, with Emphasis on Oreochromis niloticus and Alestes sadleri from the Nyanza Gulf . Albert Getabu.. .. 416 Estimating the Food Consumption per Unit Biomass of a Population of Epinephelus fuscoguttatus (Pisces: Serranidae) . Ma. Lourdes D. PalomaresandCesarioR.Pag(iilao.. 432 An Analysis of Statistical Data from the Jamaican Inshore Fisheries · MiltonHaughton.. .. 443 Mesh Size Selection in Antillean Arrowhead Fish Traps · JackWard. .. 455 A Comparative Study of Fish Mortality Rates in Moderately and Heavily Fished Areas of the Philippines. Dulce Tandog-Edralin, Salud R. GanadenandPeterFox. .. 468 Effect of Incorporating Sigmoid Selection on Optimum Mesh Size Estimation for the Samar Sea Multispecies Trawl Fishery · Geronimo T. Silvestre and Mina L. Soriano. .. 482 Effects of A Partial Increase of the Mesh Size in the Multispecies and MultifleetDemersalFisheriesin the Gulf of Thailand . Yingyong. Meemeskul. 493 Indexes. V.C. Sambilay, Jr.* SpeciesIndex.. .. 507 GeographicIndex.. .. 510 AuthorIndex. 515 .CoUege of Fisheries, University of the Philippines in the Visayas, Diliman, Quewn City. Philippines. -- . 12 Jones, R. 1984. Assessing the efCect oCchanges in exploitation paueros using length composition data (with notes on VPA and cohon analysis). FAO Fish. Tech. Pap. 256, 118 p. Munro,l.L. 1980. Stock assessment models: applicability and utility in tropical small-scale flSherie., p. 35-47. In S. Saila and P. Roedel (eds.) Stocle assessment for tropical .mall-.cale fisheries. International Center for Marine Resource. Development, King.ton, R.L Munro, 1.1.. and D. Pauly. 1982 The ICLARM Networlc of Tropical Fi.heries Scientists. ICLARM New.letter 5(4):5. Paul)', D. 1979. Gill.ize and temperature as governing Cactor in fish growth: a generalization of von Bertalanffy'. growth formula. Ber.lnsL Meere.le.Univ.KielNo.63,XV+ 156p. Pauly, D. 198Oa. On the interrelationship. between natural mortality, growth parametera and mean environmental temperature in 175 fish stocles. I. Con.., eons.InL Explor. Mer 39(3): 175-192 Pauly, P. 198Ob. A new methodology for rapidly alXJuiring basic information on tropical Cish stock.: growh, monality and .tocle recruitment relationships, p. 154-1721n S. Saila and P. Roedel (cds.) Stoclc alles.ment for tropical.mall-scale fISheries. International Center Cor Marine Resources Development, Kingston, R.L Pauly, P.1984. FISh population dynamics in tropical waters. A manual for use with programmable calculators. ICLARM Studies and Reviews 8, 325p. Pal11)', D. 1986a. On improving operation and use oCthe BLEFAN program. Pan n: improving the estimation of 1.- Fishbytc 4(1): 18-20. Pauly, D,1986b. A brief review of method. used by the participanu of the GCFM Worlcshop held In Sidi-Fredj on Simple Analytic Methods for '.. Stock Allellments,
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