5 -May n=l 



Fofk Length Inches 



Figure 7.— Monthly length-frequencies of sailfish from Malindi, 

 Kenya, pooled for the four seasons from 1958 through 1962. 

 (Smoothed curves from three figure moving average.) (From 

 Williams, 1970.) 



Table 8.— Length- weight relationship of sailfish, Istiophorus platypterus. 



Author 



Measurement 



Range 



Log a Log 6 



Merrett ( 1968b) Eye-fork length in 



centimeters, weight 



in pounds 

 Kume and Joseph Eye-fork length in 

 (1969b) centimeters, weight 



in kilograms 

 Williams ( 1970) Tip of snout to fork in 



inches, weight in pounds 

 Nakamura ( 1971 ) Total length in inches, 



weight in pounds 

 Jolley(1974) Trunk length in 



centimeters, weight 



in kilograms 



126-194 cm -4.459 2.819 



134-205 cm -3.9357 2.4156 



60-100 -2.1458 1.8896 



inches 

 70-110 -4.68194 3.26326 



inches 

 70-144 cm -5.784 3.342 

 (males) 

 42.5-151.5 -4.941 2.950 

 cm (females) 



APR. 



Figure 8.— Body length composition of sailfish in the East China Sea, 



by month from (Koto, Furukawa, and Kodama, 1959). '00 '29 150 



200 



114 



