SummaryGrowth of Boops hoops Linnaeus, 1758 (Pisces, Sparidae) in the golf of LionThe authors give the equations age‐length, age‐mass and mass‐length ofBoops boopsliving in the golf of Lion. Age has been determined by scalimetry. This study has shown that there is no difference between males and females and that the growth (lenght and mass) of the bogue along the French mediterranean coast is less on the Spanish and libanish