The age and growth parameters are important biological indices in fish biology, fishery management, and aquaculture (Ghanbarzadeh et al., 2013, 2014, 2017). In practice, the age and growth parameters of fish are typically studied by examining catches at monthly intervals (Keivany et al., 2012; Keivany and Daneshvar, 2016). Soleid fish (family Soleidae from the order Pleuronectiformes) is one of the important groups in the Persian Gulf, as they are consumed by people inside Iran and are also exported to the adjacent countries. However, there is little information on their biology. Seventeen species belonging to five families have been reported for the region (Yasemi et al., 2008). Brachirus orientalis (Figure 1) is widely distributed in the Persian Gulf and Makran Sea. They mostly live at depths of 10-200 m (Randall, 1995), reaching 40 cm in length and 1 kg in weight (Carpenter et al., 1997). Since soles are usually by-catch from shrimp trawls and other fishing nets, they have been neglected in biological studies in the region. Mohammadi and Khodadadi (2008) studied the growth parameters of B. orientalis, Bagherpour et al. (2011) examined the parasitic infections, and Moghdani et al. (2014) investigated the effects of petroleum pollution on nickel concentration in sole muscle tissue. Thus, this study aimed to obtain some information on the age and growth of soles in the Bushehr area in the Persian Gulf.
کلید واژگان :Age, growth, Solidae
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