Modelling Early Growth of Totoaba macdonaldi (Teleostei: Sciaenidae) under Laboratory Conditions
, Miguel Á. Cisneros-Mata 1, Guillermo Rodríguez-Domínguez 3, Laura Sánchez-Velasco 4, S. Patricia A. Jiménez-Rosenberg 4, Alejandro Parés-Sierra 5 and E. Alberto Aragón-Noriega 2,*Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
This Paper provides original data on the Modelling early growth of Totoaba macdonaldi under laboratory conditions. The MS is generally well written with appropriate data analyses and an interesting discussion.
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Reviewer 1
This Paper provides original data on the Modelling early growth of Totoaba macdonaldi under laboratory conditions. The MS is generally well written with appropriate data analyses and an interesting discussion.
Thank you so much for the time you dedicated to reviewing our document. Your comments encourage us to continue researching on individual growth in particular, and to continue investigating this species categorized as vulnerable.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Dear Authors
I had a chance to act as a reviewer of the manuscript Number: fishes-2228385 entitled “Modelling early growth of Totoaba macdonaldi under 2 laboratory conditions submitted to fishes.
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In this study, early growth of a sciaenid (croaker) fish endemic to the Gulf of California with high commercial importance has been investigated and the data have been provided. In this ms., the objectives are clearly expressed in the introduction. The manuscript is well organized and the authors have provided an overview of the preceding literature. The methods for data generation and analyses are all well-established. The discussion part is well written and a clear conclusion is given. This study is obviously of great interest to fisheries biologists, and environmental scientists and can be considered for publication but not in the present form because it needs minor revision. Sincerely Yours
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Reviewer 2
In this study, early growth of a sciaenid (croaker) fish endemic to the Gulf of California with high commercial importance has been investigated and the data have been provided. In this ms, the objectives are clearly expressed in the introduction. The manuscript is well organized, and the authors have provided an overview of the preceding literature. The methods for data generation and analyses are all well-established. The discussion part is well written, and a clear conclusion is given. This study is obviously of great interest to fisheries biologists, and environmental scientists and can be considered for publication but not in the present form because it needs minor revision.
We appreciate your comments. In the revised version we added the text suggested in the title (lines 2-3) and introduction (line 31). We also changed the verb “was” to “were” in line 151. We did a thorough cross-check of citations in the text vs. listed references. As suggested by one reviewer, we added four new references and included more text in Introduction and Discussion; this does not contradict either Methods or findings of our research.
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Reviewer 3 Report
Dear Authors, you have prepared an interesting paper, and my only comment is on the Figure 4 - in the list of references I did not find the papers that you cite and mention in the frame of that figure (under the names of the authors in the figure), which I wanted to check. If you have not cited these works or not cited them correctly, please include them in your paper and mention them in the Introduction and Discussion.
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Reviewer 3
Dear Authors, you have prepared an interesting paper, and my only comment is on the Figure 4 - in the list of references I did not find the papers that you cite and mention in the frame of that figure (under the names of the authors in the figure), which I wanted to check. If you have not cited these works or not cited them correctly, please include them in your paper and mention them in the Introduction and Discussion.
We are grateful for your observations to improve our manuscript. As you correctly pointed us, we added the four references cited in figure 4. In the revised version, we also included text in Introduction and Discussion.
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