The quantity,
f=1, 000
w/
l3, where
w is the weight in g and
l the length in cm of fish body, the so-called “quality indicator” or “condition factor, ” has been discussed by the writer to re-present the “fatness” of the sardine from the north-eastern parts of the bays of Sagami and Suruga (Bull. Jap. Soc. Sci. Fish.,
3(6), 1933, 312-326).
In the present paper, the writer expresses
f by
f= 1, 000 ×
Kρc1c2, where
c1l and
c2l are the height and the breadth of the fish respectively,
ρ the density and
K a constant, to examine with the sardine fished in Tôkyô Bay in 1936, as to which of the density or the thickness of the body actually causes the variation in
f.
The variation in
ρ of individual fish, having the coefficients of variation of 0.003-0.007, can not cause that in
f, which has the coefficients of 0.03-0.06. On the other hand, the coefficient of correlation between
f and c
1c
2 is so high as 0.89 on an average.
The value of
f averaged for each group,
-f showed an increase from June to August, follow-ed by a slight decrease in September, and another rapid increase until mid-November, having attained 14•5. The first increase was accompanied by a diminishing but the second by a re-markable increase in the density averaged for the group. The relative fat-content in the body seems to have little effect on
-f.
Thus, the factor which governs the values of
f is the thickness, but not the density of the body. Consequently,
f is rather proper to be called the “thickness-coefficient” in popular sense, than “fatness” as in the previous paper.
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