Estimation De La Croissance De La Sardine (Sardina Pilchardus Walb, 1792) De La Région Centre Et Est De La Méditerranée Marocaine A L’aide De L’étude Des Otolithes

Omar Kada, Souad Abdellaoui, Mohamed Najih, Driss Nachite

Volume 13 Issue 5

Global Journal of Science Frontier Researc

The study of the growth of the sardine Sardina pilchardus which populates the Moroccan Mediterranean coasts, based on the direct reading of the otoliths extracted from the internal ear, has allowed us to evaluate the age of 1015 specimens. The latter were sampled from the unloadings carried out in the main ports of the Moroccan Mediterranean from 2002 to 2004. The parameters of growth based on the equation of Von Bertalanffy are: L∞ = 21.3 cm, k =0.56, to= – 0.67, W∞= 76.2 ; a= 0,0066 and b= 3.0582.