Naupliar copepod concentrations in the spawning grounds of Japanese sardine, Sardinops melanostictus, along the Kuroshio Current

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 101-109

  Watanabe, Yoshiro ^a   Zenitani, Hiromu ^b   Kimura, Ryo ^c   Sato, Chikako ^c   Okumura, Yutaka ^c   Sugisaki, Hiroya ^d   Oozeki, Yoshioki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Nansei National Fisheries Research Institute   (Japan)

^c FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^d FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll a; Kuroshio Current; Naupliar copepods; Nutrients; Sardinops melanostictus; Spawning grounds

Indexed keywords

FISH; FOOD AVAILABILITY; LARVA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPAWNING GROUND;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

COPEPODA; SARDINOPS MELANOSTICTUS;

EID: 0031708291     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2419.1998.00059.x     Document Type: Article

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