Temperature effects on feed utilization and growth of postsettlement stage nassau grouper

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 309-315

  Ellis, Simon C ^a,b   Watanabe, Wade O ^a,c   Ellis, Eileen P ^a,b  

^a Caribbean Marine Research Center   (United States)

^b Sea Change Foundation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEED UTILIZATION; FEEDING; GROWTH; GROWTH RATE; HATCHERY REARING; NASSAU GROUPER; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECTS;

EPINEPHELUS STRIATUS;

EID: 0030820124     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1997)126<0309:TEOFUA>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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