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Morphometric Conversions for 33 Shark Species from the Western North Atlantic Ocean
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2022
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Source: MFR 84(3-4), 2022
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Journal Title:Marine Fisheries Review
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Description:This study generates and updates mathematical conversions among body length and weight measurements of sharks commonly encountered in the west-ern North Atlantic Ocean. At the initiation of individual research programs, stan-dardized measurements are determined to meet program objectives, yet these mea-surements often vary among programs and may differ within programs over time. Since length is of vital importance to understanding the basic biology of a species (e.g., growth, length at maturity) and to enforce management regulations based on size, it is necessary to have length-length and length-weight conversions to be able to standardize measurements for individu-al species. We compiled length and weight data on sharks from nine research pro-grams operating in the western North Atlantic Ocean from Canada through the Gulf of Mexico to obtain length-length and length-weight conversions for 27 spe-cies and 3 genera consisting of 6 species. Length-length and length-weight conver-sions are presented for all species using over the body fork length as the indepen-dent variable. This study updates and ex-pands previous conversions with new in-formation.
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Source:MFR 84(3-4), 2022
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Rights Information:CC0 Public Domain
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