Length-weight relationship, reproductive aspects and condition factor of the elegant cuttlefish Sepia elegans Blainville, 1827 off the northern coast of Morocco, Eastern Atlantic Ocean

Abstract

Sepia elegans (Blainville, 1827), commonly known as the elegant cuttlefish, is one of the most important cephalopods in terms of landed weight, fished by a coastal trawler off the northern Atlantic coast of Morocco (MAIA, fishing statistics data). National captives' elegant cuttlefish in the northern Moroccan coast is linked to the number of active coastal units, up to eighty active units' land in the port of Casablanca. In 2020, the productivity of the elegant cuttlefish was 110.27 Tonnes, while the port of Casablanca with 92%, i.e. 101.51 Tonnes of the total landings (MAIA, fishing statistics data).