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Table 2.

Proximate composition (mean ± SE) of different size groups of hilsa collected from Hooghly river system.

Proximate Composition	Group I (n = 50)	Group II (n = 50)	Group III (n = 50)	Group IV (n = 50)	Group V (n = 50)	Group VI (n = 50)	Group VII (n = 50)
Moisture (%)**	75.06^d ± 0.45	72.10^d ± 1.29	52.43^c ± 2.33	50.16^bc ± 0.73	41.29^a ± 0.61	42.83^ab ± 0.95	41.02^a ± 0.45
Crude protein (%)**	61.78^c ± 1.15	60.38^c ± 0.86	52.08^b ± 0.09	50.17^ab ± 0.21	51.97^b ± 0.83	50.24^ab ± 0.72	49.51^a ± 0.3
Lipid (%)**	5.68^a ± 0.49	11.55^b ± 1.96	20.25^c ± 0.8	24.18^d ± 0.71	25.04^d ± 1.08	26.13^d ± 1.58	26.87^d ± 0.43
Ash (%)**	13.25^a ± 0.13	15.75^b ± 0.41	17.54^bc ± 0.1	19.28^cd ± 1.17	20.76^d ± 1.4	21.02^d ± 0.6	21.47^d ± 0.16
Nitrogen free extract (%)**	19.18^d ± 1.62	12.16^c ± 1.78	9.91^c ± 0.63	6.03^b ± 0.8	1.81^a ± 0.77	2.15^a ± 0.8	1.63^a ± 0.35

**P < 0.01 Means followed by different superscripts, differ significantly from each other.