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International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies
ISSN: 2028-9324     CODEN: IJIABO     OCLC Number: 828807274     ZDB-ID: 2703985-7
 
 
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Relative Growth and Morphometric Measurements as an index for Estimating Meat Yield of two edible crabs Portunus pelagicus and P. sanguinolentus from the coastal waters of Pakistan


Volume 9, Issue 4, December 2014, Pages 1994–2009

 Relative Growth and Morphometric Measurements as an index for Estimating Meat Yield of two edible crabs Portunus pelagicus and P. sanguinolentus from the coastal waters of Pakistan

Shazia Rasheed1 and Javed Mustaquim2

1 Faculty of Marine Sciences, Lasbela University of Agriculture, Water and Marine Sciences, Uthal, District Lasbela, Balochistan, Pakistan
2 Centre of Excellence in Marine Biology, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan

Original language: English

Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract


This paper deals with relative growth of long carapace width (LCW) and carapace length (CL) with reference to short carapace width (SCW) in two species of edible crabs, namely Portunus pelagicus and P. sanguinolentus. The relationship between SCW and CL was found negatively co-related in both the species. Size-weight relationship showed that males are heavier than similar sized females in both species. Meat yield was found higher in P. pelagicus than P. sanguinolentus. Male P. pelagicus had 40.1 to 51.3% (average 44.5%

Author Keywords: Pakistan, Relative growth, Meat yield, Portunus, Carapace.


How to Cite this Article


Shazia Rasheed and Javed Mustaquim, “Relative Growth and Morphometric Measurements as an index for Estimating Meat Yield of two edible crabs Portunus pelagicus and P. sanguinolentus from the coastal waters of Pakistan,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 1994–2009, December 2014.