Variable spawning activity and annual fecundity of weakfish in chesapeake bay

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 532-545

  Lowerre Barbieri, Susan K ^a,b   Chittenden, Mark E ^a   Barbieri, Luiz R ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b University of Georgia Marine Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FECUNDITY; SPAWNING; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WEAKFISH;

USA, CHESAPEAKE BAY;

CYNOSCION REGALIS;

EID: 0030302939     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1996)125<0532:VSAAAF>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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