Giri, Sandip http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9338-8339
Chanda, Abhra http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3280-1959
Mondal, Partho Protim http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2655-3450
Samanta, Sourav http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0756-8662
Chakraborty, Kunal http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6940-9355
Maity, Sourav http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2337-5457
Hazra, Sugata http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4046-7030
Article History
Received: 3 November 2020
Accepted: 2 August 2021
First Online: 28 August 2021
Declarations
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: We the authors declare that we have stringently followed all the rules and all the accepted principles of ethical and professional conduct.
: All the authors have provided consent to communicate the manuscript to “Environmental Biology of Fishes” and the institutions of the respective author have no objection in this regard.
: The authors themselves have measured the primary data used in this study, and there is no objection from the author’s institute or the funding agency to publish the data.
: The juvenile fish samples used in this study were not intentionally collected for experimental purposes. When fishermen operate the net targeting some other fishes, Hilsa juveniles become part of their catch as the bycatch. Those samples were used for the present study. There was no involvement of human beings as the subject of this research and hence there is no question of sharing any private or personal information without informing the persons concerned. We also declare that all the authors have strictly complied with the authorship principles furnished by the journal.
: The authors declare no competing interests.