Fork length - meaning and illustration
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1. Synonyms, etymology, translation, definition, examples and notes
1.1. Subject field:
- Fisheries management. (🏛 Hierarchy:
Fisheries >
Fisheries management )
1.2. 🇫🇷 French translation of fork length:
- Longueur à la fourche
- FL
- Longueur de la fourche
- Longueur de fourche
1.3. Definition of fork length in fisheries:
Fork length: As regards fish with a forked caudal fin, it is the distance from the tip of the snout (mouth) to the fork of the caudal fin, for heterocercal or homocercal shaped caudal fins. It is measured from the most anterior part of the head to the posterior end of the middle caudal rays (deepest point of the notch in the tail fin)
1.4. Plural of fork length:
Fork lengths;
2. Notes on fork length
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