International Journal of
Fisheries and Aquaculture

  • Abbreviation: Int. J. Fish. Aquac.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2006-9839
  • DOI: 10.5897/IJFA
  • Start Year: 2010
  • Published Articles: 233

Table of Content: February 2011; 3(2)

February 2011

Reproductive biology and some observation on the age, growth, and management of Tilapia zilli (Gerv, 1848) from Lake Timsah, Egypt

In the present investigation, some biological aspects of Tilapia zillii from Lake Timsah were studied. This was carried out on 700 fish samples collected during the period from October, 2002 to September, 2003. Total length of females ranged from 7 to 16 cm and males from 8 to 21 cm. Age determination based on length frequency distributions showed that the life span are two and four years for females and...

Author(s): Waheed Farg-Alla Mahomoud, Amal Mohamed Mahmoud Amin, Kamal Fathey Elboray Amal Mohamed Ramadan and Magdy Mostafa Kamal Osman EL-Halfawy