Author Location Year sex L∞(cm) K (year-1) to (year)
El-Gammal Red Sea (Egypt 1988 M F 31.5 34.2 0.501 0.434 -0.09373 -0.1002
EL-Okda Red Sea (Egypt 1991 M F C 30.6 31.2 30.9 0.513 0.499 0.505 -0.07638 -0.04007 -0.05562
EL-Okda Mediterranean(Egypt) 1998 C 32.0 0.299 -0.09786
Bilecenoglu and Kaya Med. (Turkey) 2002 M F C 21.1 22.6 22.3 0.343 0.267 0.279 -0.537 -0.473 -0.503
El-Ganainy and Ahmed Red (Egypt) 2002 C 29.4 0.735 -0.220
Mehanna and Abdallah Red (Egypt) 2002 C 37.1 0.397 -0.186
Bariche Mediterr. (Lebanon) 2005 C 31.9 0.225 -1.307
Present study Bitter Lakes Egypt 2011 M F 36.5 35.5 0.0786 0.0849 -1.0038 -0.843
Table 5: Von Bertalanffy parameters from the literature and the present study for male (M), female (F) and combined sex (C) of Siganus rivulatus.