Intrusions of surface sewage plumes into continental shelf waters: Interactions with larval and presettlement juvenile fishes

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 139, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 31-45

  Gray, Charles A ^a  

^a NSW Fisheries Research Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distribution patterns; Oceanography; Plumes; Sewage; Young fishes

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION; FISH LARVA; FISH LARVAE; SEWAGE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE PLUMES;

AUSTRALIA, NEW SOUTH WALES, SYDNEY;

CARANGIDAE; ENGRAULIDIDAE; SPARIDAE;

EID: 0029662825     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps139031     Document Type: Article

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