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Saad, A., Mehanna, S., Khalil, M., Said, M. (2015). Population dynamics of the freshwater crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Girard,1852) in the River Nile, Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, 19(2), 101-116. doi: 10.21608/ejabf.2015.2261
Abd El-Halim Saad; Sahar Mehanna; Magdy Khalil; Mohamed Said. "Population dynamics of the freshwater crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Girard,1852) in the River Nile, Egypt". Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, 19, 2, 2015, 101-116. doi: 10.21608/ejabf.2015.2261
Saad, A., Mehanna, S., Khalil, M., Said, M. (2015). 'Population dynamics of the freshwater crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Girard,1852) in the River Nile, Egypt', Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, 19(2), pp. 101-116. doi: 10.21608/ejabf.2015.2261
Saad, A., Mehanna, S., Khalil, M., Said, M. Population dynamics of the freshwater crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Girard,1852) in the River Nile, Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, 2015; 19(2): 101-116. doi: 10.21608/ejabf.2015.2261

Population dynamics of the freshwater crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Girard,1852) in the River Nile, Egypt

Article 10, Volume 19, Issue 2, April 2015, Page 101-116  XML PDF (5.35 MB)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/ejabf.2015.2261
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Authors
Abd El-Halim Saad1; Sahar Mehanna2; Magdy Khalil3; Mohamed Said3
1Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
2National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Suez, Egypt
3Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Abstract
The red swamp crayfish, Procambarus clarkii was introduced into the River
Nile in the early 1980s and has become a resident in the Egyptian freshwater
ecosystems, but up till now no detailed study has been done to know its stock or even
its population dynamic in the River Nile.
The population dynamical parameters of Procambarus clarkii were estimated
during the period from 2009 to 2012; based on 3465 specimens (1455 males and 2010
females) (7.0 – 15.0 TL), collected from two locations along the River Nile. It was
found that this species attains its highest growth rate during the first six months of
life, after which, the increment in length is decreased with the further increase in age.
The growth of this species is isometric based on the b-value of length weight
relationship. From the length frequency distribution analysis, the population
parameters for combined sexes were: asymptotic length L∞ = 16.45cm TL, growth
coefficient K = 1.60/y, instantaneous total mortality Z = 3.65/y for male and 5.60/y for
female, natural mortality M = 2.28/y for male and 1.91/y for female, fishing mortality
F = 1.37/y for male and 3.69/y for female, exploitation ratio E = 0.38 /y for male and
0.66/y for female, length at first capture Lc = 9.11 and 9.25 cm TL for males and
females, respectively. The relative yield per recruit (Y'/R) and relative biomass per
recruit (B'/R) analysis for P. clarkii in the River Nile gives a maximum (Y'/R) at E=
0.70 and the exploitation level which maintains the spawning stock biomass at 50% of
the virgin spawning biomass E0.5 was estimated as 0.37. This indicates that there is a
chance to expand the red swamp crayfish fishery by increasing the current E to that
which gives the maximum Y'/R but raising the exploitation ratio to that level will not
be reasonable and will be associated with a very little portion of yield. So, keeping the
exploitation ratio at its current value or reducing it to E0.5 value (E= 0.37) to achieve
more economic return
Keywords
Procambarus clarii; Population dynamics; freshwater crayfish; River Nile
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Fisheries
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