Table 5. Crude fat and total vitamin K content of conger eel in relation to water temperature, harvest season and fish size

Contents	Size	Harvest season (average sea temperature, °C)1)				F-value
		Spring (16.4±1.8°C)	Summer (26.7±3.1°C)	Fall (23.7±3.0°C)	Winter (14.4±1.0°C)
Crude fat (g/100g)	Large	8.30±0.07b2)	12.27±0.17a	10.67±0.07ab	9.61±0.10ab	2.379
	Small	3.36±0.04b	3.71±0.02b	5.52±0.14b	10.97±0.13a	6.452*3)
Total vitamin K (μg/100 g)	Large	0.95±0.06a	1.15±0.06a	0.93±0.05a	1.07±0.04a	0.705
	Small	0.81±0.04a	0.49±0.01a	0.45±0.02a	1.30±0.02a	2.057

Spring, Mar-May; summer, Jun-Aug; fall, Sep-Nov; winter, Dec-Feb. Average sea temperature of Geoje, Gyeongnam where conger eels were sampled was provided from Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Agency, KHOA, Korea (2023).
Means with different superscript letters in the same row are significantly different at p<0.05.
^*p<0.05.