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Open Journal of Marine Science, 2012, 2, 1-7 /10.4236/ojms.2012.21001 Published Online January 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ojms) Size Structure and Biomass of the Panama Grunt (Pomadasys panamensis) from Bycatch in the Southeastern Gulf of California 1 2 1 José Alberto Rodríguez-Preciado , Juan Madrid-Vera , Ricardo Meraz-Sánchez 1Posgrado en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mazatlán, México 2Instituto Nacional de Pesca, Centro Regional de Investigación Pesquera (CRIP) Mazatlán, Mazatlán, México Email: {arodriguez, merazs}@ola.icmyl.unam.mx, juanchomvera@.mx Received July 29, 2011; revised October 22, 2011; accepted October 28, 2011 ABSTRACT A population analysis was made using data of the grunt Pomadasys panamensis. The information is from the catch from 260 hauls in estuarine waters, open-ocean waters, and off the coast of Sinaloa and northern Nayarit, Mexico, in the sou- theastern Gulf of California. The area of influence is about 120,000 km2 and includes about a third of the drag area of the largest shrimp fleet of the American Pacific. The average length in the population was 210 mm. The maximum length was 430 mm and the minimum was 50 mm. The analysis for the frequency distributions of the lengths and the multinomial solution produced representative modal groups for 160 mm, 190 mm, and 230 mm. The simulation of the biomass density gave an estimate close to 90 t, with 650,000 organisms before starting the fishing season in the region. The density was 0.19 kg·ha–1 . The colonization was 0.42% or 42%. The model was validated using the Aikaikae crite- rion (AIC). The results provide