Development of life-stage-specific indices of relative abundance and stock-recruitment relationships for the Delaware Bay blue crab stock

Journal of Shellfish Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 529-541

  Kahn, Desmond M ^a   Cole, Richard W ^a   Michels, Stewart F ^a   Whitmore, William H ^a  

^a Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue crab; Callinectes sapidus; Delaware Bay; Growth stages; Life history; Stock recruit relationships; Trawl indices of relative abundance; Validation of relative abundance indices; Width frequency distributions

Indexed keywords

CRAB FISHERY; LIFE HISTORY; RECRUITMENT; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

UNITED STATES;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA;

EID: 0031761775     PISSN: 07308000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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