Research Article
Three-Year Closure of Fishing Seasons as a Management Tool for the Omani Abalone, Haliotis mariae, Fishery in the Sultanate of Oman
Table 5
Sample number and average shell length (mm) with standard error of H. mariae in the studied areas from 2009 to 2021.
| Area | Year | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
| Mirbat | 217 72.9 (1.55) | 611 76.2 (0.82) | 695 74.2 (0.84) | 364 61.1 (1.03) | 656 59.5 (0.67) | 337 69.5 (1.08) | 406 67.8 (0.96) | 171 67.3 (1.55) | 152 71.1 (1.22) | 189 67.8 (1.26) | 199 75.2 (1.24) | Sadah | 286 77.0 (1.02) | 662 78.4 (0.84) | 1136 81.2 (0.60) | 916 60.3 (0.70) | 1339 60.0 (0.41) | 659 73.0 (0.70) | 544 70.2 (0.77) | 254 71.7 (1.14) | 401 69.0 (0.98) | 299 59.5 (0.97) | 448 70.3 (0.86) | Hadbin | 463 80.6 (0.77) | 718 89.5 (0.61) | 920 87.2 (0.64) | 934 65.6 (0.68) | 784 60.3 (0.64) | 339 82.3 (0.75) | 280 73.8 (1.08) | 201 70.5 (1.49) | 391 75.0 (1.01) | 163 66.2 (1.21) | 341 80.7 (0.94) | Hasik | 83 78.4 (2.14) | 185 81.8 (1.17) | 435 81.6 (0.89) | 276 71.1 (1.28) | 232 66.6 (1.30) | 137 84.7 (1.46) | 70 74.1 (2.63) | 40 44.7 (3.18) | 105 52.8 (2.14) | 68 68.3 (2.08) | 76 81.6 (2.18) | Average | 1049 77.2 (1.37) | 2176 81.5 (0.86) | 3186 81.1 (0.74) | 2490 64.5 (0.92) | 3011 61.6 (0.76) | 1472 77.4 (1.00) | 1300 71.4 (1.36) | 666 63.5 (1.84) | 1049 67.0 (1.34) | 719 65.4 (1.38) | 1064 77.0 (1.31) |
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Above line is the sample number; middle line is the average value; the standard error in brackets. |