Relative Weight (Wr) Status and Current Use in Fisheries Assessment and Management

By Brian G. Blackwell, Michael L. Brown, David W. Willis. 2000

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Subfields: Aquatic Science, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

A New Method to Compute Standard-Weight Equations That Reduces Length-Related Bias (2005, methodology): “Body condition indices are used to describe samples from fish populations and have become important tools for fisheries managers ( Anderson and Neumann 1996 ; Blackwell et al.”
Detrimental effects of recent ocean surface warming on growth condition of Atlantic salmon (2008, methodology): “Most measures of condition factor are, however, vulnerable to length-dependence (Blackwell et al., 2000), which is especially problematic because male 1SW salmon returning in summer typically are longer and heavier than females, and both sexes tend to increase in length and weight as the summer…”
Indicators of Energetic Status in Juvenile Coho Salmon and Chinook Salmon (2005, background): “A plethora of condition factors have been derived for fish ( Bolger and Connolly 1989 ; Blackwell et al.”
Are growth and density quantitative indicators of essential fish habitat quality? An application to the common sole Solea solea nursery grounds (2006, background): “…Wc where W(mg) is the observed body weight and Wc (mg) is the computed body weight derived from the logged length-weight relationships of the sample (Blackwell et al., 2000) (i.e. the deviation of predicted weight estimated from the common logged length-weight relationship in terms of fish…”
Physiological responses of juvenile rainbow trout to fasting and swimming activity: Effects on body composition and condition indices (2003, background): “It is popular because it does not vary with fish length and is assumed to serve as a surrogate measure of lipid reserves ( Brown and Murphy 1991 ; Blackwell et al.”
Methods for Assessing Fish Populations (2010, methodology): “Similarly, 300 stock-length bluegill per hour of electrofishing is a high catch rate for small (<200 ha) reservoirs in the Great Plains ecological region of North America and only a modest catch rate for small reservoirs in the eastern temperate forests ecological region (Brouder et al. 2009).”
Proposed Standard Weight (Ws) Equations and Standard Length Categories for 18 Warmwater Nongame and Riverine Fish Species (2000, methodology): “weights rather than the 75th percentile (Blackwell et al. 2000).”