Use of walleye relative weights (wr) to assess prey availability

North American Journal of Fisheries Management

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 628-637

  Porath, Mark T ^a,b   Peters, Edward J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b ARIZONA GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY LENGTH; BODY WEIGHT; LENGTH CLASS; PREY AVAILABILITY; WALLEYE;

LAKE MCCONAUGHY; LAKE OGALLALA; NEBRASKA; USA;

STIZOSTEDION VITREUM;

EID: 0030695489     PISSN: 02755947     EISSN: 15488675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8675(1997)017<0628:UOWRWW>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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