Disentangling the effects of fishing and environment on fish abundance distribution is essential for informing future fisheries management measures. Fishery-independent trawl survey data (8 years between 1999 2016) were examined to test influences effort environmental variables (temperature, oxygen salinity) spatial two species groups (5 economically important 3 non-commercial species) continen...

Otoliths are widely used to estimate the age and growth of fishes identify fish species. This information plays a vital role in fisheries management population dynamics studies. The about length otolith dimensions relationship Upeneus vittatus is lacking from Indian water. In this study, total 237 numbers individuals were collected October 2018 March 2019 left was studied since there no signifi...

A new nematode species (Neoascarophis mariae n. sp.) is described based on specimens collected from the Argentine goatfish Mullus argentinae (Hubbs et Marini) from coastal waters off the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the genus, the new species belongs to the group of species with females that have the vulva near the posterior end of the body. Only males of Neoascarophis longispicula Morav...

The presence of antithiamine factors in fish has been known since the early 1940's when it was noted that foxes fed raw carp developed polyneuritic symptoms or Chastek paralysis which was characteristic of thiamine deficiency (1). This condition could be pre vented by heating the fish or including ad ditional thiamine in the diet and was later shown to be caused by the presence of an enzyme "th...