Age and growth of vermilion snapper from the Southeastern United States

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 787-795

  Potts, Jennifer C ^a   Manooch, Charles S ^a   Vaughan, Douglas S ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; GROWTH RATE; OTOLITH; VON BERTALANFFY EQUATION;

(NORTHEAST); GULF OF MEXICO;

ANIMALIA; PERCIFORMES; RHOMBOPLITES AURORUBENS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031797639     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1998)127<0787:AAGOVS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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