Length-Weight Relation in the Common or White Shrimp, 'Penaeus setiferus'. Special Scientific Report Fisheries No. 256

摘要

In order to determine the size at which a species can be most profitably taken, the relation between increase in mass weight of a shrimp population through growth and recruitment and decrease through mortality must be known. Information about length and weight as attributes of growth are essential in understanding this relation. The length-weight relations for common or white shrimp, 'Penaeus setiferus' (Linnaeus), were determined from measurements of lengths and weights of 14,284 specimens secured over a 1-year period in Texas. Material was obtained during each month of the year. Measurements of total length (from tip of rostrum to tip of telson) were taken to the nearest millimeter and weights to the nearest tenth of a gram.