[{
  "type": "article-journal",
  "title": "POPULATION DYNAMICS OF BOLEOPHTHALMUS BODDARTI IN THE MEKONG DELTA, VIETNAM",
  "author": [
    {
      "family": "Dinh",
      "given": ""
    }
  ],
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [[2017]]
  },
  "container-title": "Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences",
  "ISSN": "1018-7081",
  "volume": "27",
  "issue": "2",
  "page": "603-610",
  "DOI": "N/A",
  "abstract": "<p><em>Boleophthalmusboddarti&nbsp;</em>has been increasingly being fished, but littleis knownabout its population dynamics. This study aims to providesome basic parameters of its population biology used for fishery management. A total of 1702 individualscollected by deep gill net along the mudflat in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, from March 2013 to February 2014.Data analysis showed that the male to female&nbsp;<em>B. boddarti</em>ratio was nearly 1:1.The parameters of von Bertalanffy growth function fitting to the length frequency data were&nbsp;<em>L&infin;</em>= 16.8 cm,&nbsp;<em>K</em>&nbsp;= 0.79 yr-1 and&nbsp;<em>t0</em>&nbsp;= &ndash;0.24 yr-1. The longevity (<em>tmax</em>) and the growth performance (<em>&Phi;&rsquo;</em>) were 3.55 yrs and 2.35, respectively. The fishing mortality (<em>F</em>&nbsp;= 0.30 yr-1) and natural mortality (<em>M</em>&nbsp;= 1.83 yr-1) amounted for 14.1% and 85.9% of the total mortality (Z = 2.13 yr-1), respectively. There were two recruitment peaks separated by an interval of 6 months and relative yield-per-recruit and biomass-per-recruit analyses gave&nbsp;<em>Emax</em>&nbsp;= 0.737,&nbsp;<em>E0.1</em>&nbsp;= 0.618 and&nbsp;<em>E0.5</em>&nbsp;= 0.348. This study reported that this mudskipper could be potential for future aquaculture due to high growth constant (<em>K</em>), and the local government should require fisherman to change the deep gill net mesh size for the future sustainable exploitation and development.</p>",
  "publisher": "Pakistan Agricultural Scientists Forum",
  "URL": "https://thejaps.org.pk/AbstractView.aspx?mid=2017-JAPS-75"
}]