Length-Weight Relationship for 15 Commercially Important Fish Species of Portonovo Coast, Tamil Nadu, South East of India

Synoptic length-weight observation on fifteen finfish species Sardinella longiceps, Leiognathus splendens, Rastrelliger kanagurta, Carangoids malabaricus, Liza parsia, Thryssa mystax, Epinephelus tauvina, Trachinocephalus myops, Nemipterus randalli, Cheilopogon cyanopterus, Decapterus russelli, Lutzanaus erythropterus, Mugil cephalus, Thryssa purava, Sillago sihama, Arius dussumieri and Terapon jarbua collected along Portonovo coast, Tamilnadu was analysed. The slope b in the length-weight relationships ranged from 2.216 to 3.11, with mean value of 11.96 to 28.94 and R2 ranged from 0.5660 to 0.941.