Abstract
Presented study provides, length weight relationship for a total of 486 specimen of Arabian yellow-finned sea bream Acanthopagrus arabicus (Iwatsuki, 2013) belonging to family Sparidae from Karachi coast, Pakistan. Minimum and maximum values for total length of male and female were 165 mm to 354 mm and 165 mm to 350 mm, respectively. In male body weight recorded 90 g to 830 g while in female recorded 90 g to 1024 g. For presented length weight relationships of Acanthopagrus arabicus, Observed value of ‘b’ for male, female and combined data is 2.746 (N= 256), 2.754 (N = 230) and 2.733 (N= 486, significant, P < 0.05), respectively which shows negative allometric growth pattern. Values of Coefficient of correlation (r2 ) for male, female and combine/unsexed data were observed 0.951, 0.958 and 0.953, respectively.
