Observed patches of walleye pollock eggs and larvae in Shelikof Strait, Alaska: Their characteristics, formation and persistence

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1996, Pages 81-91

  Stabeno, Phyllis J ^a   Schumacher, James D ^a   Bailey, Kevin M ^a   Brodeur, Richard D ^a   Cokelet, Edward D ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

eddies; ichthyoplankton; patchiness; schooling; walleye pollock

Indexed keywords

POLLACHIUS VIRENS; STIZOSTEDION VITREUM; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

ECOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTION; EGGS; FISH EGG; FISH LARVA; LARVAE; PATCHINESS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WALLEYE POLLOCK;

USA, ALASKA, SHELIKOF STRAIT;

EID: 0030302204     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.1996.tb00084.x     Document Type: Review

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