El Nino Southern Oscillation and tuna in the western Pacific

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6652, 1997, Pages 715-718

  Lehodey, P ^a   Bertignac, M ^a   Hampton, J ^a   Lewis, A ^a   Picaut, J ^b  

^a SECRETARIAT OF THE PACIFIC COMMUNITY   (New Caledonia)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER; SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FISHING; GEOGRAPHY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030693375     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/39575     Document Type: Article

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