{"id":700,"date":"2025-02-25T08:12:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T08:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vingnanam.jfn.ac.lk\/?p=700"},"modified":"2025-02-25T08:12:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T08:12:30","slug":"length-weight-relationship-and-condition-factor-of-sardinella-gibbosa-bleeker-1849-from-the-north-west-coast-of-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vingnanam.jfn.ac.lk\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"Length-Weight relationship and Condition Factor of Sardinella gibbosa (Bleeker, 1849) from the North-West Coast of Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Authors<\/h4>\n<p>P.M.R. Chanaka Supun Bandara Pallemulla, Sivashanthini Kuganathan, Jorge Santos, Prabath Jayasinghe<\/p>\n<h4>Abstract<\/h4>\n<div>The present study aimed to determine the length-weight relationship and condition factor of Sardinella gibbosa (Bleeker, 1849) on the North-West coast of Sri Lanka. The samples were collected every month from three major fish landing centers between 2021-2023. The fish were caught in a small mesh (1.27 cm &#8211; 3.81 cm) gill net. The average weight of S. gibbosa ranged from 4.2 g to 28.1 g, with a mean of 15.77 g. The length ranged from 6.2 cm to 14.3 cm, with an average of 9.65 cm. The length-weight relationship, W=aLb and condition factor (W *100\/L3) are presented for the S. gibbosa. The length-weight relationship of the sardines collected from Chilaw, Negombo, and Puttalam sampling areas were W=0.11328L2.085 (R2=0.7208), W=0.0927L2.3319 (R2=0.7667), and W=0.0926L2.3562 (R2=0.7586), respectively. The condition factor ranged from 1.467 to 1.484 and the regression coefficient indicated negative allometric growth. The data obtained can be used as a baseline for future studies and valuable source for fisheries managers, biologists, and conservationists to save the fisheries resources.<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Download<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vingnanam.jfn.ac.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/19-1-4.pdf\">Article [PDF]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors P.M.R. Chanaka Supun Bandara Pallemulla, Sivashanthini Kuganathan, Jorge Santos, Prabath Jayasinghe Abstract The present study aimed to determine the length-weight relationship and condition factor of Sardinella gibbosa (Bleeker, 1849) on the North-West coast of Sri Lanka. The samples were collected every month from three major fish landing centers between 2021-2023. The fish were caught [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[554,553,549,551,548,550,552,524],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19-1","tag-allometric-growth","tag-condition-factor","tag-jorge-santos","tag-length-weight-relationship","tag-p-m-r-chanaka-supun-bandara-pallemulla","tag-prabath-jayasinghe","tag-sardinella-gibbosa","tag-sivashanthini-kuganathan"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vingnanam.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vingnanam.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vingnanam.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vingnanam.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vingnanam.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vingnanam.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/vingnanam.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vingnanam.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vingnanam.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vingnanam.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}