Saline groundwater as an aquaculture medium: Physiological studies on the red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 119-128

  Forsberg, James A ^a   Neill, William H ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Biological Service   (United States)

Author keywords

aquaculture; calcium; critical oxygen concentration; magnesium; metabolic scope; routine metabolic rate; specific ion effects

Indexed keywords

METABOLIC RATE; RED DRUM; SALINITY; SULPHATE;

SCIAENOPS OCELLATUS;

EID: 0030618220     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007350726184     Document Type: Article

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