Spawning of the shortnose sturgeon in the Merrimack River, Massachusetts

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 179-186

  Kleffer, Micah C ^a   Kynard, Boyd ^a  

^a National Biological Service   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHORTNOSE STURGEON; SPAWNING;

USA, MASSACHUSETTS, MERRIMACK RIVER;

ACIPENSER BREVIROSTRUM;

EID: 0030324408     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1996)125<0179:SOTSSI>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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