Cause for the decline of large rainbow trout in a tailwater fishery: Too much putting or too much taking?

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 758-773

  Weiland, Mark A ^a   Hayward, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISHINF PRESSURE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; POPULATION DECLINE; RAINBOW TROUT; STOCKING RATE;

LAKE TANEYCOMO; MISSOURI; USA;

ONCORHYYNCHUS MYKISS;

EID: 0031444742     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1997)126<0758:CFTDOL>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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