This study was conducted in Oymapınar Dam Lake from March 2016 to February 2017. The investigated the age composition, spawning season, sex ratio, first sexual maturity, and fecundity of chub (S. anatolicus). ages 422 chubs sampled ranged II VIII which 200 (47.39%) were females 222 (52.61%) males. fork lengths weights female varied between 20.0 cm 55.1 93.37 g 2307.88 respectively. oldest group...

Finlets are small non-retractable fins located on the dorsal and ventral margins of the body between the second dorsal and anal fins and the tail of scombrid fishes. The morphology of the finlets, and finlet kinematics during swimming in a flow tank at speeds of 0.8-3. 0 fork lengths s(-1), were examined in the chub mackerel Scomber japonicus. Functionally, S. japonicus has five dorsal and anal...