Limestone treatment of Whetstone Brook, Massachusetts. II. Changes in the brown trout (Salmo trutta) and brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) fishery

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 273-283

  Simmons, Kenneth R ^a   Cieslewicz, Paul G ^b,c   Zajicek, Kirsten ^b  

^a Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID PRECIPITATION; BROOK TROUT; BROWN TROUT; FISHERY; LIMING;

USA, MASSACHUSETTS, WHETSTONE BROOK;

SALMO TRUTTA; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 0030326859     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.1996.tb00179.x     Document Type: Article

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