Early morphological predictors of maturity in one-sea-winter Atlantic salmon

Aquaculture International

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 41-50

  Kadri, Sunil ^a   Metcalfe, Neil B ^a   Huntingford, Felicity A ^a   Thorpe, John E ^a   Mitchell, David F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b Blar Mhor Industrial Estate   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar); Maturity; Morphology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011191612     PISSN: 09676120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02764786     Document Type: Article

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