title: Some Growth Properties and Length at First Maturity of Big Scale Sand Smelt (Atherina boyeri Risso, 1810) in İznik Lake, Turkey
abstract: In this study, the length at first maturity and growth characteristics of the big scale sand smelt (Atherina boyeri Risso 1810) were investigated in İznik Lake. Catching trials were conducted on a monthly basis at 4 different stations of the lake between March 2014 and February 2015 and beach seine net with 6 mm of codend mesh size was used in the samplings. The overall sex ratio of the subsample was founded as 1:1.46 (F:M; 1180 females, 1729 males). The fork length range were 3.3-11.2 cm for fe
journal: Journal of Limnology and Freshwater Fisheries Research